Noun: nude
Sample Sentences
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Michelangelo's David is a well-known standing male nude; Michelangelo also created several other nudes.
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Lexa sent me a nude last week.
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she caught him in the nude
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What eye shadow looks best on my eye color? Brown eyes – Off whites, nudes, peaches, and purples. [2013, Debra, How to be a Man Magnet:]
Nouns inflected like nude
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Entered English 1493 as a legal term, meaning "unsupported, not formally attested," from Middle English nud, from Latin nūdus (“naked, bare”). See: Latin Nouns '
nūdus'.