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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
strapless
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a strapless dress (=that does not have straps on your shoulders)
▪ She was wearing a strapless cream dress and matching shoes.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
dress
▪ Susanna wore a black silk strapless dress.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ I had a little dress made - it was a strapless taffeta number, very girly and aqua blue.
▪ I saw a strapless black gown in the corner, a pair of stilettos discreetly hidden on the floor.
▪ Susanna wore a black silk strapless dress.
▪ The black taffeta silk ballgown was strapless and backless with a plunging, gravity-defying decolletage.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
strapless

1824 of shoes, 1839 of trousers, 1920 of gowns, 1931 of brassieres, from strap (n.) + -less.

Wiktionary
strapless

a. Without a strap or straps.

WordNet
strapless

adj. having no straps; "a strapless evening gown"

Wikipedia
Strapless

Strapless is a 1989 film written and directed by David Hare.

Usage examples of "strapless".

The end result was a short, black strapless dress topped with a bolero jacket aswirl with red passementerie, a soft, straight, ribbon-tied ponytail, smoky eyes, red-red lips, onyx earrings, sheer black hose, and high-heeled patent pumps.

She was wearing a low-cut, smooth-fitting strapless bra in stretch satin and lace with lightly lined underwire cups, and a high-cut, wide-band brief with a sheer lace panel in the front, all in white.

She was also wearing a low-cut, smooth-fitting strapless bra in stretch satin and lace with lightly lined underwire cups, and a high-cut, wide-band brief with a sheer lace panel in the front, all in white.

She was standing between two windows wearing a strapless bodysuit in creamy white stretch satin, with underwire cups and a plunging V-centre.

She was wearing a low cut, smooth fitting strapless bra in stretch satin and lace with lightly lined underwire cups, and a high cut, wide band brief with a sheer lace panel in the front, all in white.

The bra of sorts was a strapless corselette, heavily beaded in green and gold glass beads and designed to manoeuvre even the smallest of breasts into a cleavage.

His eyes openly examined the strapless, skin-colored lace corselette before they moved down the length of sheer silk stockings to the white peau de soie heels.

Beth Garrington was attired in a strapless corselette of gleaming black leather, laced tightly about her waist.

These most incredible dresses, Brandy tells me, the constructed ball gowns, the engineered evening dresses with their hoops and strapless bodices, their stand-up horseshoe collars and flaring shoulders, nipped waists, their stand-away peplums and bones, they never last very long.

She came sweeping in wearing an orange strapless sunback dress, white gloves, purse and shoes, gigantic false lashes, a cloud of spicy perfume, a funny little hat in orange-colored straw balanced atop blonde tresses.

And then I thought of trying on her strapless taffeta and her high-heeled diamante sling-backs, just to see how they would look.

Emanuel Ungaro sea-foam-green silk mousseline wrap dress with a halter collar, no back and a slit clear up her thigh, a strapless Escada with a fitted, silver-embroidered bodice and a full, Cinderella-like skirt with tulle underlayers in silver and blue, and a classic black organza with laser-cut trim by Givenchy.

I suggest that you revise these slightly, giving some concealment for a strapless brassiere underneath.

Therri wore a knockout strapless black evening dress, and Austin had replaced the tux he'd ruined in the Washington dogsled race.

The satin, covered by a thin, lacy overlayer, was strapless and low-cut and against his will his eyes were drawn to the shadowed swell of creamy flesh revealed above its edge.