nudity

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I will consider doing full nudity (and I said CONSIDER) but never explicit nudity, and never hardcore.

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  1. A nude or naked state; nakedness; bareness; exposedness; lack of covering or disguise. Many souls in their young nudity are tumbled out among incongruities, and left to “find their feet” among them, while their elders go about their business. George Eliot, Middlemarch, I. 213. It may appear that I insist too much upon the nudity of the Provençal horizon … But it is an exquisite bareness; it seems to exist for the purpose of allowing one to follow the delicate lines of the hills, and touch with the eyes, as it were, the smallest inflections of the landscape. H. James, Jr., Little Tour, p. 189.
  2. In a concrete sense, a nude or naked thing; also, a representation of a nude figure; anything freely exposed or laid bare. Sometimes they took Men with their heels upward, and hurry'd them about in such an undecent manner as to expose their Nudities. Maundrell, Aleppo to Jerusalem, p. 95. The world's all face; the man who shows his heart Is hooted for his nudities, and scorn'd. Young, Night Thoughts, viii. He [Harry Tidbody] had piles upon piles of gray paper at his lodgings, covered with worthless nudities in black and white chalk. Thackeray, On Men and Pictures.

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  • I could see all this because Carla was naked, and she didn't seem to have the slightest idea that her nudity was a little on the "too much information" side to suit me. —  Charlaine Harris - Southern Vamp 07 - All Together Dead
  • I could see all this because Carla was naked, and she didn't seem to have the slightest idea that her nudity was a little on the “too much information” side to suit me. —  Southern Vamp 7 - All Together Dead
  • The nudity, the missing tags, the genitals, the tree branch, the yogurt, and the belt. —  The Enemy by Lee Child
  • She became aware of her semi-nudity, and hurriedly turned away from him as she reached for her bra, fastening it in record time before pulling on the singlet top, and slipping her feet into trainers. —  Helen Bianchin - The Wedding Ultimatum
  • I will consider doing full nudity (and I said CONSIDER) but never explicit nudity, and never hardcore. —  LUKE IS BACK
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  1. from French nudité = Provencal nudetat = Portuguese nuidade = Italian nudità, from Latin nudita (t-) s, nakedness, bareness, from nudus, naked: see nude.
 

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