nudistn.adj.

1866 Nature & Art July 51/2 Should he [sc. M. Courbet] obtain the medal of honour,..the ‘Nudists’ will be triumphant, and the next exhibition may be expected to be très-décolletée.

1899 Photogr. News 10 Nov. 727/1 Camera Notes, the organ of the New York Camera Club, has a fine pictorial initial to its first article, a nude study of a young man gracefully reclining against a pillar, by that prince of nudists—Count Gloeden.

1918 M. F. Peirce New York iii. ix. 61 A standard American portrait painter, who is also a devoted nudist said to me: ‘The woman's body is the most beautiful thing there is, and it has simply got to be painted.’

1922 Amer. Photogr. Feb. 86 The posing of the subject is closely akin to the posing of the nude in art. It must have interpretive quality. Consequently, following the line of reasoning adopted by the leading nudists, [etc.].

1907 Boston Globe 8 Aug. 2/2 When a revival of the procession..was agitated, there were many who desired a strict adherence to tradition, even to the nudity of Lady Godiva, but the anti-nudists succeeded in effecting a compromise.]

1925 Boston Daily Globe 20 Sept. c8 Thus it can be seen that the nudists have some scientific backing for their actions.

1929 Time 1 July 23/1 A U.S. parallel would be if elegant Editor Frank Crowninshield of Vanity Fair should suddenly appear as a vegetable-eating, hairy-chested Nudist.

1931 John o' London's Weekly 8 Aug. 620/3 The nudists of France are pursued by the police, by the clergy, by the wit of Parisian cartoonists.

1943 A. Rand Fountainhead iii. vii. 520 He's a crackpot. He's the one who's been a Yogi, then a vegetarian, then a Unitarian, then a nudist.

1973 G. Mitchell Murder of Busy Lizzie xiii. 146 ‘Did you know..that there is a nudist colony on the island?’.. ‘If nudists excite you, you're welcome to them.’

1990 Internat. H & E Monthly 91 No. 9. 58/1 I have been a nudist for years, albeit secretly as, in my job [sc. Baptist minister], it is difficult to ‘come out’!

2006 L. Reid Talk the Talk 221 The term ‘nudist colony’ is not generally part of the language of naturists and nudists.

1926 Pop. Sci. Feb. 27/2 In the country, or in their clubs, the nudist enthusiasts can treat themselves to as much sunlight as they please.

1929 Time 1 July 23/1 Much publicity has been given the Nudist colony on an island in the Seine near Paris.

1938 L. MacNeice I crossed Minch i. vi. 85 The Devil's business fell as flat As a nudist camp or an opera hat.

1966 J. Ball Cool Cottontail iii. 22 Have you ever been in a nudist park before, doctor?

1988 Holiday Which? May 125/4 For..information on..nudist beaches in Britain, write to The Naturist Foundation.

2004 B. Herzog Small World 171 Landed nudist clubs are groups who own a nudist facility. Nonlanded nudist clubs are nomadic organizations that meet in various places.