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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
nudist
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A nudist colony of angels exercised their wings in Eastbourne cemetery.
▪ Inside was rather lengthy letter from a nudist who lives next to Bonaventure cemetery.
▪ Inside, a two-page article featured three more photographs showing another five nudists.
▪ Raising nudist children in a non-nudist world poses certain problems, Michelle has discovered.
▪ Some fear nudist camps, especially those that draw families with children, serve as magnates for pedophiles.
▪ The man who lived here would have definite elixir theories about his yoghurts, his knee-bends, his nudist vacations.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
nudist

1929, adjective and noun, from French nudiste or formed in English from nude (adj.) + -ist; also see nudism.

Wiktionary
nudist

a. ''Naturism.'' Encouraging or enforcing nudity, as opposed to clothing compulsive. n. ''Naturism.'' A person who practices nudism.

WordNet
nudist

n. a person who practices nudity for reasons of health or religion [syn: naturist]

Usage examples of "nudist".

They, themselves, were maniacally programmed psychopaths, as deniable as the nudists.

Just before Jan leaves for America, he and Edwige spend a weekend at an island that has a nudist beach, and in the process of telling the story Kundera turns nudism into another kind of border.

This was the magic and mystery of a locker room, steam room, massage table, or of a coeducational volleyball game in a nudist colony.

Now the people passing were suddenly all nude, and certainly the booth made handsomer nudists of them than nature.

It amounts to a parallel culture, I would imagine, right up to the nudists and hippies on Crete in recent years.

High-spiritedly she was arching herself backwards, to reveal (i) that little girls in nudist camps are healthy and can do the crab, and (ii) her cunt, in order to sate the more recondite predilections of certain cineastes - one of whom, a mackintoshed compost-heap, was sitting immobile, like a toadstool, not even wanking, in a wide circle of unoccupied seats.

It is one of those very few Great Forks in The Road of Life that cannot be avoided: like a Jesuit priest who is also a practicing nudist with a $200-a-day smack habit wanting to be the first Naked Pope (or Pope Naked the First, if we want to use the language of the church).

As a result, the land was dotted with ramshackle windmill, solar heating panels, geodesic domes, group marriages, nudists, philosophers, theoreticians, messiahs, hermits, and more than a few just plain nuts.

Me, I've always been a nudist by inclination, on grounds of sheer laziness if nothing else-and I was living in a former nudist colony.

One time I took him to the nudist colony in New Jersey to join in the swinging there, and unfortunately for Larry, soon after we walked in I saw the beautifully shaped suntanned behind of an attractive man, and there was nothing I would rather do than stick my tongue in between his buttocks.

Alice was laughing hysterically at Fay's suggestion that we all join a nudist colony, and she leaned over and accepted a drink that Fay poured for her.

He had to cooperate, as one might when joining a nudist colony, lest his failure to do so expose him even less prettily.

There was something mundane about Woody's descriptions of that nudist colony in outer space.

And then there's her walking around naked, and you walking around naked -- pretty soon we're some kind of nudist colony around here.

Maybe the girl will write them a postcard from a nudist colony in California.