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Synonyms for nudes

Grammar : Noun
Spell : nood, nyood
Phonetic Transcription : nud, nyud

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Définition of nudes

Origin :
  • 1530s, a legal term, "unsupported, not formally attested," from Latin nudus "naked, bare, unclothed, stripped" (see naked). General sense of "mere, plain, simple" attested from 1550s. In reference to the human body, meaning "unclothed," it is an artistic euphemism for naked, dating from 1610s (implied in nudity) but not in common use in this sense until mid-19c.
  • As in model : noun person, thing that poses
  • As in nudity : noun nakedness
  • As in birthday suit : noun the state of having no clothes on
  • As in nudeness : noun nudity
Example sentences :
  • Boche and Bibi-the-Smoker snickered at the nudes, pointing them out to each other and winking.
  • Extract from : « L'Assommoir » by Emile Zola
  • You can imagine the trouble, however, we had with the nudes.
  • Extract from : « Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays » by Various
  • Do you know, I think it would have been just as well not to have had any nudes?
  • Extract from : « Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays » by Various
  • His nudes are as masterly in painting as Manet's, and more supple.
  • Extract from : « The French Impressionists (1860-1900) » by Camille Mauclair
  • Let us look first at his engraving known as the “Battle of the Nudes.”
  • Extract from : « The Florentine Painters of the Renaissance » by Bernhard Berenson
  • Of all Watteau's pictures the nudes seem undoubtedly to have been painted from Nature and not from drawings.
  • Extract from : « Watteau » by C. Lewis Hind
  • Then, adopting a reddish colour gamut, he began to create full figures of nudes, portraits and animal studies.
  • Extract from : « Modern Painting, Its Tendency and Meaning » by Willard Huntington Wright
  • The draperies are drawn over, and are made to conform exactly to the forms copied from the nudes of the underpainted picture.
  • Extract from : « Frederic Lord Leighton » by Ernest Rhys
  • His drawings were his documents, and these, like the nudes, were of course made direct from Nature.
  • Extract from : « Watteau » by C. Lewis Hind
  • The draperies are drawn over, and made to conform exactly to the forms copied from the nudes of the underpainted picture.
  • Extract from : « The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton » by Mrs. Russell Barrington

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