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bare-backedness

bare-backedness noun: the quality of being bare-backed.

Noun

bare-backedness (uncountable)

  1. (rare) The quality of being bare-backed.
    • Paris designers have seized on this idea of bare-faced bare-backedness—and here is the result—it’s what the smartest Europeans are wearing so successfully.1930 September 17, Ogilvy’s, “Back to Nature!”, in The Gazette, complete edition, volume CLIX, number 223, Montreal, Que., page 5
    • That he works with his back bare a natural thing, yet, whether he should put on his clothes again for drinking tea becomes an issue. For Rosy, his bare-backedness can remind her of her romantic fancy for him before marriage, yet Charles would deem the bare-backedness to be embarrassing and indecent.1993, 靜宜人文學報: Journal of Humanities, numbers 5–7, →OCLC, page 208

Origin of bare-backedness

From bare-backed + -ness.

Questions about bare-backedness

What does bare-backedness mean?
Bare-backedness means the quality of being bare-backed.
What part of speech is bare-backedness?
Bare-backedness is a noun.

Words near bare-backedness in the dictionary

  1. bare with
  2. Bare'e
  3. bare-arse
  4. bare-assed
  5. bare-backed
  6. bare-backedness
  7. bare-bellied
  8. bare-bellied Joe
  9. bare-bellied Joes
  10. bare-boned
  11. bare-bones

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