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bare-backed en · ADJ

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Without a saddle
2. (not-comparable) With a bare back
   • There, among the punk sophisticates and bow-ties and shiny shoes and bare-backed women, was Mum, wearing a blue and white dress, blue hat and brown sandals. 1990, Hanif Kureishi, chapter 15, in The Buddha of Suburbia, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Viking, →ISBN, page 228:
   • At the edge of the woods stood an Indian in worn buckskins and heavy furs; with him were what looked like two white men bundled up against the cold, and all three were staring at a bearded, bare-backed man who was tied to a small maple tree, the skin on his back already branded with sticky red welts. 1982, June Lund Shiplett, chapter 18, in Thunder in the Wind (Tides of Passion), New York, N.Y.: Signet, New American Library, published January 1983, →ISBN, page 340:
   • Before I could answer, a ravishing creature in one of those long, bare-backed gowns which I’d gathered from advertisements were the modern woman’s evening dress, strolled past our table. 1949, Monica Baldwin, chapter 10, in I Leap over the Wall: A Return to the World after Twenty-Eight Years in a Convent, London: Hamish Hamilton, section 2, page 244:

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Deriveds

bare-backedness

bare-backed en · ADV

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Without a saddle

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