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See also: barebacked
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Adjective
[edit]bare-backed (not comparable)
- Without a saddle
- With a bare back
- 1949, Monica Baldwin, chapter 10, in I Leap over the Wall: A Return to the World after Twenty-Eight Years in a Convent, London: Hamish Hamilton, section 2, page 244:
- Before I could answer, a ravishing creature in one of those long, bare-backed gowns which I’d gathered from advertisements were the modern woman’s evening dress, strolled past our table.
- 1982, June Lund Shiplett, chapter 18, in Thunder in the Wind (Tides of Passion), New York, N.Y.: Signet, New American Library, published 1983 January, →ISBN, page 340:
- At the edge of the woods stood an Indian in worn buckskins and heavy furs; with him were what looked like two white men bundled up against the cold, and all three were staring at a bearded, bare-backed man who was tied to a small maple tree, the skin on his back already branded with sticky red welts.
- 1990, Hanif Kureishi, chapter 15, in The Buddha of Suburbia, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Viking, →ISBN, page 228:
- There, among the punk sophisticates and bow-ties and shiny shoes and bare-backed women, was Mum, wearing a blue and white dress, blue hat and brown sandals.
Derived terms
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[edit]without a saddle — see bareback
Adverb
[edit]bare-backed (not comparable)
- Without a saddle
Translations
[edit]without a saddle — see bareback