nude

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{{11}}nude (adj.) 1530s, a legal term, "unsupported, not formally attested," from L. nudus "naked, bare, unclothed, stripped" (see NAKED (Cf. 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 (Cf. nudity)) but not in common use in this sense until mid-19c.
{{12}}nude (n.) "nude figure in visual art," 1708, from Fr. nud, obsolete variant of nu "naked, nude, bare," from L. nudus (see NUDE (Cf. nude) (adj.)).

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  • Nude — (n[=u]d), a. [L. nudus. See {Naked}.] 1. Bare; naked; unclothed; undraped; as, a nude statue. [1913 Webster] 2. (Law) Naked; without consideration; void; as, a nude contract. See {Nudum pactum}. Blackstone. [1913 Webster] {The nude}, the undraped …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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