Definitions

Sorry, no definitions found. Check out and contribute to the discussion of this word!

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word bare-necked.

Examples

  • Other endangered restricted range species that migrate seasonally to this ecoregion are the three-wattled bellbird (Procnias tricarunculata) and the bare-necked umbrella bird (Cephalopterus glabricollis).

    Isthmian-Pacific moist forests 2010

  • SYDNEY: Now, I notice tonight you are bare-necked -- we can say that, we're on cable -- is that a trend?

    CNN Transcript - Special Event: 2001: An Oscar Odyssey - March 25, 2001 2001

  • I never before had seen men bare-necked and the fashion is not becoming.

    The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

  • To which purpose she useth all inventions imaginable, running too and again about the house bare-necked, and her breasts raised up; or comes to his bedside all unlaced, or fains to sit sleeping by the fire side with her coats up to her knees, against her Master comes home, with the key in his Pocket, merrily disposed, from his Companions; or with

    The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple A. Marsh

  • She could have cried out for happiness to that human mass which, behind the flaming streak of the footlights, spread itself, bare-necked and bedizened, in the warm shadow of the front boxes.

    The Bill-Toppers J. Andr�� Castaigne

  • Grinning boys were up to their ears in juice, girls, bare-armed and bare-necked, reached for plates held teasingly aloft.

    The Trumpeter Swan Temple Bailey

  • She was now no longer a lady: she once more became the Spartan, bare-necked, her hair undone, her body streaming with perspiration, and to work, to work, to make up for lost time!

    The Bill-Toppers J. Andr�� Castaigne

  • He thought of Paris, of that life which, she said, would civilize him; he tried in vain to form an image of the cafés and little carriages, the bare-necked women drinking champagne.

    Mountain Blood A Novel Joseph Hergesheimer 1917

  • [Page 191] the lowest step, or leaned against the piers, and there was one prominent face of intense curiosity, that of a bare-necked, red-haired man, half rogue, three-quarters savage, stretching neck in front to listen to the lady, which can never leave my eyes.

    Maria Edgeworth 1905

  • How singular, it struck Neale, to see good-looking, bare-armed and bare-necked young women dancing there, and dancing well!

    The U. P. Trail Zane Grey 1905

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.