semiclad en · ADJ
Etymology
From semi- + clad.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Partly clothed.
Yet the Midway also allowed American men to play at being masculine barbarians themselves, savoring the visual pleasures of semiclad exotic dancers while simultaneously and inconsistently relishing their sense of superior, civilized, white manliness.
1996, Gail Bederman, Manliness and Civilization, page 40: