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backless
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Word definitions for backless in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Backless \Back"less\, a. Without a back.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. lacking a back; "a stool is a backless and armless seat" [ant: backed ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 having no back, said of things that typically have backs, such as chairs or dresses 2 (context of a person English) having an uncovered back, having a back that shows skin
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Although I doubt even Camilla would wear the backless Lycra frock that this woman almost had on. ▪ I waited, sitting as quietly and unobtrusively as possible on the low backless benches in front of the ground-floor lobby ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1926, in reference to women's clothing, from back (n.) + -less .
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Backless is the sixth studio album by blues rocker Eric Clapton , released in 1978. The album reached No. 8 on the pop charts. While the single " Promises " only reached No. 37 in the UK, it was a much bigger success in the U.S ., reaching No. 9 on the ...
Usage examples of backless.
The sunsuit was short and backless with a complex series of crisscrossing strips of that same pink and blue over each breast, to a bare midriff and a pair of micro-shorts.
The Conies Britan-norum sat at the top of this round table, his chair larger and more ornately carved than the backless ones in which we of lesser rank were seated.
Rindfleisch greeting guests with crushing handshakes, embraces and kisses for the good-looking ex-girl classmates like Ginger McCord, formerly Siefried, in a backless pale green dress that set off her pallid redhead's skin, how wan Ginger was looking, but beautiful as we hadn't seen her since Doug's alcoholic collapse, cancer a lung removed, Dougie'd been a four-pack-a-day man for twenty years) and their divorce and bitter child-custody case, we'd heard rumors that Ginger herself had been hospitalized, attempted suicide by overdose, but her old friends Trish Elders and Shelby Connor refused to talk about this, or about Ginger, and it was difficult to believe that Ginger had suffered any profound malaise of the soul as she slipped her bare, slender arms around Jon's thick neck and kissed his startled mouth with little-girl kisses as Jon's wife Nanci stared smiling a few yards away.
She very carefully kept her eyes averted from the man in a backless breechcloth and then had to look away again from a pubescent girl who was topless.