bare-backed

See also: barebacked

English

Alternative forms

• bareback
• barebacked

Adjective

bare-backed (not comparable)

1. Without a saddle
2. 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

• bare-backedness

Translations

without a saddle — see bareback

Adverb

bare-backed (not comparable)

1. Without a saddle

Translations

without a saddle — see bareback