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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
backless
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 windows.
▪ She would have turned heads anywhere in a navy blue backless dress which rose just above her knee.
▪ The black taffeta silk ballgown was strapless and backless with a plunging, gravity-defying decolletage.
▪ There, in the smoky crowd, you might encounter Marlene Dietrich in a backless gown or the novelist Sybil Bedford.
▪ To go with it she wore a turquoise-and-gray-striped apron and matching backless slippers.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Backless

Backless \Back"less\, a. Without a back.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
backless

1926, in reference to women's clothing, from back (n.) + -less.

Wiktionary
backless

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

WordNet
backless

adj. lacking a back; "a stool is a backless and armless seat" [ant: backed]

Wikipedia
Backless

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 Billboard charts. The follow-up single was actually the B-side of "Promises", "Watch Out for Lucy", as it reached #40 on the Billboard charts on its own merit.

A blue and white scarf worn by Clapton on the album sleeve is believed to be a scarf of West Bromwich Albion Football Club. Clapton is widely believed to be a supporter of the club, despite being born in Ripley, Surrey more than 100 miles away. In recent years he has reportedly been more interested in Chelsea F.C..

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.