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- adjective Without
shoulders .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Hayworth's nakedness is constantly trompe l'oeiled for a 40s audience by shoulderless gowns and diaphanous, breast-emphatic blouses.
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The focus in north Seattle is, unsurprisingly, mostly on the completion of the “missing link” of the Burke-Gilman Trail — a 1. 5-mile segment that currently runs along Shilshole Ave, a shoulderless road that takes cyclists over train tracks several times.
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Currently, cyclists have to share a busy, shoulderless MLK with speeding traffic — potentially opening the door for people who might otherwise not consider using a bike as part of their commute.
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Kurt Wilberding/The Wall Street Journal Miheer Same turned an oversized stocking into a one-piece, shoulderless dress.
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Kurt Wilberding/The Wall Street Journal A trumpet-shaped, shoulderless dress with a light pink feathered pattern, part of Jason Wu's Fall/Winter 2010 collection.
Brand Jason Wu 2010
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Where after an hour you wish that beyond the shoulderless road there was just a little sign of civilization here and there.
Kook Peter Heller 2010
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Kurt Wilberding/The Wall Street Journal A trumpet-shaped, shoulderless dress with a light pink feathered pattern, part of Jason Wu's Fall/Winter 2010 collection.
Brand Jason Wu 2010
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Kurt Wilberding/The Wall Street Journal Model Karlie Kloss wears a shoulderless ivory gown touched with a sparse gold-and-olive feather pattern.
Brand Jason Wu 2010
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Kurt Wilberding/The Wall Street Journal Model Karlie Kloss wears a shoulderless ivory gown touched with a sparse gold-and-olive feather pattern.
Brand Jason Wu 2010
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Some forty-five years later, when Harriet Lane -- the niece and White House hostess of the bachelor President James Buchanan (and the first to be called "First Lady") popularized what was called the "low-neck lace bertha" it set off something of a popular style -- yet when her immediate successor Mary Lincoln wore shoulderless, armless dresses, she was criticized as "showing off her bosom."
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