adjective
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having no top
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denoting a costume which has no covering for the breasts
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wearing such a costume
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archaic immeasurably high
Other Word Forms
- toplessness noun
Etymology
Origin of topless
Example Sentences
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Activists in Catalonia are celebrating after the government of the Spanish region informed its town and city halls that they must allow women to go topless in public swimming pools.
From BBC
Berlin’s authorities want to make it very clear: Women are free to swim topless in municipal pools, as are those who identify as nonbinary, if that’s what they want.
From Washington Post
“Really this is righting a wrong — catching up to what was already legal for men, allowing the space for all bodies to be topless,” Stover told WBZ-AM radio.
From Seattle Times
England's captain Bobby Moore, the man that had lifted the Jules Rimet trophy four years earlier, paid Pele the ultimate compliment at full-time, swapping shirts with him, prompting their now iconic topless embrace.
From BBC
The campaign illustration of five women relaxing on the beach also features a topless woman after a mastectomy.
From BBC
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