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semiclad

semiclad adjective: partly clothed.

Adjective

semiclad (not comparable)

  1. Partly clothed.
    • Yet the Midway also allowed American men to play at being masculine barbarians themselves, savoring the visual pleasures of semiclad exotic dancers while simultaneously and inconsistently relishing their sense of superior, civilized, white manliness.1996, Gail Bederman, Manliness and Civilization, page 40

Origin of semiclad

From semi- + clad.

Questions about semiclad

What does semiclad mean?
Semiclad means partly clothed.
What part of speech is semiclad?
Semiclad is an adjective.

Words near semiclad in the dictionary

  1. semicitizenships
  2. semicivilised
  3. semicivilization
  4. semicivilizations
  5. semicivilized
  6. semiclad
  7. semiclairvoyant
  8. semiclassic
  9. semiclassical
  10. semiclassicality
  11. semiclassically

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