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  • noun Plural form of nude.

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Examples

  • Apparently showing nudes from a museum in Europe is making bland host Rick Steves worry about fines.

    Continuing threats to free speech « BuzzMachine 2005

  • BTW, some parts of the site are NSFW (contain nudes). (via Bibi’s box) [Translate]

    Vladimir Clavijo-Telepnev’s Alice 2009

  • The problem was not Burroughs ( "They Just Fade Away") but an article by Wayland Young (a history of the word nudes by Emil J. Cadoo.

    RealityStudio 2009

  • Recognizable forms such as nudes and still-life objects seem to occupy the same plane as the decorative background created by stippled brushstrokes.

    Eugenie Baizerman. 2009

  • He looked at the walls hung with sentimental photogravures, at the shiny bronze "nudes," the moth-eaten animal-skins and the bedizened bed-and once more the unreality, the impossibility, of all that was happening to him entered like a drug into his veins.

    The Glimpses of the Moon 1922

  • Although these pictures are commonly referred to as "nudes," the crossed legs, careful poses, and modesty props sustained the tension of not-quite-all-revealed sensuality.

    Boing Boing 2010

  • By opting for metallic accessories, instead of nudes which is perhaps the more obvious choice, she has made the outfit look current and chic rather than staid and boring.

    Sky Showbiz - Latest 2010

  • Portions of beaches from Florida to Maine where the hardiest of naturists ventured were taken over by nudes in noticeably greater numbers by the mid-1970s.

    A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

  • Idealized nudes in uplifting allegories provided airbrushed soft pornography for the "refined" sensibilities of the time.

    The MFA's New Art of the Americas Wing . . . Ada Louise Huxtable 2011

  • At this crucial moment, Picasso groped backward, imitating the Farnese Hercules statue he had seen on a trip to Naples, or the torqued nudes created by the 19th century neoclassicist Ingres.

    Blockbuster Picasso show in Richmond must be seen, but it's not all masterpieces 2011

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