Meaning of bare-backedness | Babel Free

Definitions

The quality of being bare-backed.

rare, uncountable

Examples

“Paris designers have seized on this idea of bare-faced bare-backedness—and here is the result—it’s what the smartest Europeans are wearing so successfully.”

“That he works with his back bare a natural thing, yet, whether he should put on his clothes again for drinking tea becomes an issue. For Rosy, his bare-backedness can remind her of her romantic fancy for him before marriage, yet Charles would deem the bare-backedness to be embarrassing and indecent.”

“And then Jessica in her whiteness and bare-backedness is at his side, long fingers of one hand on his shoulder, the nails white like her trouser suit, her red lips whispering in his ear, her sleek ponytail halfway down her back, wisping across the tattoo in the small.”

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