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semi-ˈnude, a.
[semi- 1.]
Half naked.
1856Smyth Rom. Family Coins 209 A seminude Victoria alata in a rapid biga. 1880‘Ouida’ Moths i, She had floated and bobbed and swum and splashed semi-nude. 1886Guide Exhib. Galleries Brit. Mus. 110 A semi-nude figure of a saint holding an ensign.
b. Bot. (see quot. 1849).
1849Balfour Man. Bot. §576 In mignonette, the seed-vessel opens early, so as to expose the seeds, which are called seminude. 1887Bentley Man. Bot. (ed. 5) 325 True Gymnospermous plants..should be carefully distinguished from those with seminude ovules.
Hence ˌsemi-ˈnudity, the condition of being half naked; concr. a semi-nude figure.
1859Sala Tw. round Clock (1861) 417 The glittering semi⁓nudities gyrating here. 1896Daily News 12 June 5/1 Then there were the Revolutionary semi-nudity, and the sham Greek dress. |