toplessadj.

/ˈtɒplɪs/

Etymology: < top n.¹ + -less suffix.

1. Having no top; without a top or summit.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > high position > [adjective] > of or relating to the top > having (a) top(s) > not

topless1596

uncrested1611

turbanless1840

crestless1889

1596 Raigne of Edward III sig. I1^v There is a loftie hill, Whose top seemes toplesse .

1614 C. Brooke Ghost Richard III iii. ii. sig. I1 Thou Toplesse Builder of great Babels Spyre, (Damned Ambition).

1859 G. Meredith Ordeal Richard Feverel III. xi. 330 Gray topless ruins.

1910 Daily Chron. 14 Jan. 6/7 Statues to well-known Parsees wearing their topless hats.

a. figurative. Seeming to have no top or summit; immensely or immeasurably high; unbounded.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > vertical extent > [adjective] > great or considerable

higheOE

steepOE

heaven-highOE

highlyOE

brentc1400

hightc1480

hichty1513

procere1542

tall1548

spiringa1552

towereda1552

tower-like1552

upstretched1563

airy1565

excelse1569

haughty1570

topless1589

lofty1590

procerous1599

kiss-sky1603

skyish1604

topful?1611

aspiringc1620

sky-high1622

hiddy1632

tiptoed1632

sublime1635

towering1638

soaring1687

mountain high1693

clamberinga1717

skied1730

towery1731

pyramidic1740

skyey1750

skyward1792

skyscraping1797

exulting1798

high-reaching1827

steepling1892

high-rise1964

hi1972

1589 R. Greene Menaphon sig. D2^v The glister of the Sunne vpon the toplesse Promontorie of Sicilia.

1602 J. Marston Antonios Reuenge i. i. sig. A4 And euen adore my toplesse villany.

1626 Bp. J. Hall Serm. Publike Thanksgiuing 19 Oh the boundlesse, toplesse, bottomlesse load of diuine benefits.

1707 I. Watts Hymns & Spiritual Songs 102 Where neither Wings nor Souls can fly, Nor Angels climb the topless Throne.

1863 P. Ruysdale Pilgrimage over Prairies II. 134 Where topless cliffs frown down on the intruder, forbidding further passage.

†b. Than which there is nothing higher; having no superior; supreme, paramount. Obsolete. rare^—1.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > pre-eminence > [adjective]

firsteOE

headOE

highOE

greatc1350

upperestc1374

chief1377

singular1377

principala1382

royalc1425

cardinal1440

pre-eminenta1460

praisea1475

main1480

maina1525

primary1565

captain1566

arch1574

mistressa1586

capital1597

topless1609

primea1616

metropolitan1635

transeminent1660

whole1675

uppermost1680

primus inter pares1688

topping1694

Sudder1787

par excellence1839

banner1840

primatial1892

1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida i. iii. 152 Some-time great Agamemnon, Thy toplesse deputation he puts on.

a. Designating or pertaining to a garment, esp. a (woman's) bathing-suit or dress, having little or no material above the waist; that does not cover the breasts and upper body.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [adjective] > other

smalleOE

lightc1230

round1402

side-necked1430

wanton1489

Spanish1530

tucked1530

lustya1555

civil1582

open-breasted1598

full1601

everlasting1607

sheeten1611

nothinga1616

burly1651

pin-up1677

slouching1691

double-breasted1701

negligée1718

translated1727

uniform1746

undress1777

single-breasted1796

unworn1798

mamalone1799

costumic1801

safeguard1822

Tom and Jerry1830

lightweight1837

fancy dress1844

wrap-1845

hen-skin1846

Mary Stuart1846

well-cut1849

mousquetaire1851

empire1852

costumary1853

solid1859

spring weight1869

Henri II1870

western1881

hard-boiled1882

man-of-war1883

Henley1886

demi-season1890

Gretchen1890

toreador1892

crossover1893

French cut1896

drifty1897

boxy1898

Buster Brown1902

Romney1903

modistic1907

Peter Pan1908

classic1909

Fauntleroy1911

baby doll1912

flared1928

flare1929

tuck-in1929

unpressed1932

Edwardian1934

swingy1937

topless1937

wraparound1937

dressed-down1939

cover-up1942

Sun Yat-sen1942

utility1942

non-utility1948

sudsable1951

off-the-shoulder1953

peasant1953

flareless1954

A-line1955

matador1955

stretch1956

wash-and-wear1959

layered1962

Tom Jones1964

Carnaby Street1965

Action Man1966

Mao-style1967

wear-dated1968

thermal1970

bondage1980

swaggery1980

hoochie1990

mitumba1990

kinderwhore1994

1937 Time 21 June 53/1 With another bathing-suit season at hand, local lawmakers are aiming their ordinances at males on the score of topless suits rather than at underclad females.

1964 San Francisco Chron. 16 June 4/1 Saigis introduced San Francisco's first topless bathing suit for women.

1964 Punch 1 July 20/2 The topless look.

1964 New Statesman 24 July 116/1 A girl who wears a topless dress in the streets of Coventry or Nottingham could be doing as much for her sex as any Mrs Pankhurst.

1966 C. Mackenzie Paper Lives xii. 166 And those topless dresses they're going in for now aren't nearly as topless as those dresses they were wearing about 1500 b.c.

1971 S. Jepson Let. to Dead Girl xvii. 195 Her jeans were covered with dirt, and her shirt torn into topless decolleté.

1978 P. Glynn In Fashion iv. 97 Rudi Gernreich's topless bathing suit had appeared in 1964.

b. Of a person (esp. a woman): naked or almost naked above the waist; bare-breasted.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > nakedness or state of being unclothed > [adjective] > having specific part of body uncovered > chest or breasts

open-breasted1598

bare-bosomed1809

bare-chested1873

topless1966

1966 Observer 13 Nov. 2/8 The appearance of topless waitresses.

1968 ‘R. Raine’ Night of Hawk xxvi. 125 Various acts, the main one being African girl dancers who perform topless.

1969 Observer 7 Dec. 25/3 Topless boys with shoulder-length hair pause as they cycle past you: ‘Wanna buy some acid?’

1970 Daily Progress (Charlottesville, Va.) 29 May 19/5 (heading) Topless girl is acquitted.

1981 Birds Summer 55/2 New reserve records included nude female bathers on Loch Garten, a ‘topless’ woman picking blackberries, [etc.].

c. Applied to a place or area in which women are permitted to appear naked above the waist; esp. of bars, etc., employing bare-breasted waitresses or dancers, and of beaches at which women sunbathe topless. Hence also of entertainments, sunbathing, etc., so conducted.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > entertainment > place of amusement or entertainment > [adjective] > where women go bare-breasted

topless1967

1967 F. Warner Madrigals 30 Draining down screwdrivers in topless Broadway.

1970 G. R. Taylor Doomsday Bk. x. 246 Fairbanks has become a boom-town with topless entertainment in the bars and saloons.

1972 G. Baxt Burning Sappho ii. 41 For Chrissakes not one of them topless joints. Who wants flabby tits hanging over my shrimp cocktail.

1976 P. Cave High Flying Birds iii. 36 This section of the beach was strictly topless.

1978 N.Y. Times 30 Mar. b2/4 He has campaigned against marijuana decriminalization, ‘topless’ bars, [etc.].

1979 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 26 Jan. 5 Toronto City Council probably will move on Feb. 5 to restrict new bars offering topless or nude entertainment.

1983 Times 6 July 32/1 Topless sunbathing is a well-established practice on a great many British beaches.

Derivatives

ˈtoplessness n. the condition of being topless (sense 3).

1964 Punch 22 July 117/3 His pronouncement on toplessness.

1982 C. Castle Folies Bergère iii. 127 Today, the question of toplessness..evokes little excitement in an age of naked beaches.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2019).

单词	topless
释义	toplessadj. /ˈtɒplɪs/ Etymology: < top n.¹ + -less suffix. 1. Having no top; without a top or summit. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > high position > [adjective] > of or relating to the top > having (a) top(s) > not topless1596 uncrested1611 turbanless1840 crestless1889 1596 Raigne of Edward III sig. I1^v There is a loftie hill, Whose top seemes toplesse . View more context for this quotation 1614 C. Brooke Ghost Richard III iii. ii. sig. I1 Thou Toplesse Builder of great Babels Spyre, (Damned Ambition). 1859 G. Meredith Ordeal Richard Feverel III. xi. 330 Gray topless ruins. 1910 Daily Chron. 14 Jan. 6/7 Statues to well-known Parsees wearing their topless hats. 2. a. figurative. Seeming to have no top or summit; immensely or immeasurably high; unbounded. ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > vertical extent > [adjective] > great or considerable higheOE steepOE heaven-highOE highlyOE brentc1400 hightc1480 hichty1513 procere1542 tall1548 spiringa1552 towereda1552 tower-like1552 upstretched1563 airy1565 excelse1569 haughty1570 topless1589 lofty1590 procerous1599 kiss-sky1603 skyish1604 topful?1611 aspiringc1620 sky-high1622 hiddy1632 tiptoed1632 sublime1635 towering1638 soaring1687 mountain high1693 clamberinga1717 skied1730 towery1731 pyramidic1740 skyey1750 skyward1792 skyscraping1797 exulting1798 high-reaching1827 steepling1892 high-rise1964 hi1972 1589 R. Greene Menaphon sig. D2^v The glister of the Sunne vpon the toplesse Promontorie of Sicilia. 1602 J. Marston Antonios Reuenge i. i. sig. A4 And euen adore my toplesse villany. 1626 Bp. J. Hall Serm. Publike Thanksgiuing 19 Oh the boundlesse, toplesse, bottomlesse load of diuine benefits. 1707 I. Watts Hymns & Spiritual Songs 102 Where neither Wings nor Souls can fly, Nor Angels climb the topless Throne. 1863 P. Ruysdale Pilgrimage over Prairies II. 134 Where topless cliffs frown down on the intruder, forbidding further passage. †b. Than which there is nothing higher; having no superior; supreme, paramount. Obsolete. rare^—1. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > pre-eminence > [adjective] firsteOE headOE highOE greatc1350 upperestc1374 chief1377 singular1377 principala1382 royalc1425 cardinal1440 pre-eminenta1460 praisea1475 main1480 maina1525 primary1565 captain1566 arch1574 mistressa1586 capital1597 topless1609 primea1616 metropolitan1635 transeminent1660 whole1675 uppermost1680 primus inter pares1688 topping1694 Sudder1787 par excellence1839 banner1840 primatial1892 1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida i. iii. 152 Some-time great Agamemnon, Thy toplesse deputation he puts on. View more context for this quotation 3. a. Designating or pertaining to a garment, esp. a (woman's) bathing-suit or dress, having little or no material above the waist; that does not cover the breasts and upper body. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [adjective] > other smalleOE lightc1230 round1402 side-necked1430 wanton1489 Spanish1530 tucked1530 lustya1555 civil1582 open-breasted1598 full1601 everlasting1607 sheeten1611 nothinga1616 burly1651 pin-up1677 slouching1691 double-breasted1701 negligée1718 translated1727 uniform1746 undress1777 single-breasted1796 unworn1798 mamalone1799 costumic1801 safeguard1822 Tom and Jerry1830 lightweight1837 fancy dress1844 wrap-1845 hen-skin1846 Mary Stuart1846 well-cut1849 mousquetaire1851 empire1852 costumary1853 solid1859 spring weight1869 Henri II1870 western1881 hard-boiled1882 man-of-war1883 Henley1886 demi-season1890 Gretchen1890 toreador1892 crossover1893 French cut1896 drifty1897 boxy1898 Buster Brown1902 Romney1903 modistic1907 Peter Pan1908 classic1909 Fauntleroy1911 baby doll1912 flared1928 flare1929 tuck-in1929 unpressed1932 Edwardian1934 swingy1937 topless1937 wraparound1937 dressed-down1939 cover-up1942 Sun Yat-sen1942 utility1942 non-utility1948 sudsable1951 off-the-shoulder1953 peasant1953 flareless1954 A-line1955 matador1955 stretch1956 wash-and-wear1959 layered1962 Tom Jones1964 Carnaby Street1965 Action Man1966 Mao-style1967 wear-dated1968 thermal1970 bondage1980 swaggery1980 hoochie1990 mitumba1990 kinderwhore1994 1937 Time 21 June 53/1 With another bathing-suit season at hand, local lawmakers are aiming their ordinances at males on the score of topless suits rather than at underclad females. 1964 San Francisco Chron. 16 June 4/1 Saigis introduced San Francisco's first topless bathing suit for women. 1964 Punch 1 July 20/2 The topless look. 1964 New Statesman 24 July 116/1 A girl who wears a topless dress in the streets of Coventry or Nottingham could be doing as much for her sex as any Mrs Pankhurst. 1966 C. Mackenzie Paper Lives xii. 166 And those topless dresses they're going in for now aren't nearly as topless as those dresses they were wearing about 1500 b.c. 1971 S. Jepson Let. to Dead Girl xvii. 195 Her jeans were covered with dirt, and her shirt torn into topless decolleté. 1978 P. Glynn In Fashion iv. 97 Rudi Gernreich's topless bathing suit had appeared in 1964. b. Of a person (esp. a woman): naked or almost naked above the waist; bare-breasted. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > nakedness or state of being unclothed > [adjective] > having specific part of body uncovered > chest or breasts open-breasted1598 bare-bosomed1809 bare-chested1873 topless1966 1966 Observer 13 Nov. 2/8 The appearance of topless waitresses. 1968 ‘R. Raine’ Night of Hawk xxvi. 125 Various acts, the main one being African girl dancers who perform topless. 1969 Observer 7 Dec. 25/3 Topless boys with shoulder-length hair pause as they cycle past you: ‘Wanna buy some acid?’ 1970 Daily Progress (Charlottesville, Va.) 29 May 19/5 (heading) Topless girl is acquitted. 1981 Birds Summer 55/2 New reserve records included nude female bathers on Loch Garten, a ‘topless’ woman picking blackberries, [etc.]. c. Applied to a place or area in which women are permitted to appear naked above the waist; esp. of bars, etc., employing bare-breasted waitresses or dancers, and of beaches at which women sunbathe topless. Hence also of entertainments, sunbathing, etc., so conducted. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > place of amusement or entertainment > [adjective] > where women go bare-breasted topless1967 1967 F. Warner Madrigals 30 Draining down screwdrivers in topless Broadway. 1970 G. R. Taylor Doomsday Bk. x. 246 Fairbanks has become a boom-town with topless entertainment in the bars and saloons. 1972 G. Baxt Burning Sappho ii. 41 For Chrissakes not one of them topless joints. Who wants flabby tits hanging over my shrimp cocktail. 1976 P. Cave High Flying Birds iii. 36 This section of the beach was strictly topless. 1978 N.Y. Times 30 Mar. b2/4 He has campaigned against marijuana decriminalization, ‘topless’ bars, [etc.]. 1979 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 26 Jan. 5 Toronto City Council probably will move on Feb. 5 to restrict new bars offering topless or nude entertainment. 1983 Times 6 July 32/1 Topless sunbathing is a well-established practice on a great many British beaches. Derivatives ˈtoplessness n. the condition of being topless (sense 3). Π 1964 Punch 22 July 117/3 His pronouncement on toplessness. 1982 C. Castle Folies Bergère iii. 127 Today, the question of toplessness..evokes little excitement in an age of naked beaches. 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