Antonyms for nudes

Grammar : Noun

Spell : nood, nyood

Phonetic Transcription : nud, nyud

photographer

Definition of nudes

Origin : 1530s, a legal term, "unsupported, not formally attested," from Latin nudus "naked, bare, unclothed, stripped" (see naked). General sense of "mere, plain, simple" attested from 1550s. In reference to the human body, meaning "unclothed," it is an artistic euphemism for naked, dating from 1610s (implied in nudity) but not in common use in this sense until mid-19c.

As in model : noun person, thing that poses
As in nudity : noun nakedness
As in birthday suit : noun the state of having no clothes on
As in nudeness : noun nudity

Example sentences :

Boche and Bibi-the-Smoker snickered at the nudes, pointing them out to each other and winking.
Extract from : « L'Assommoir » by Emile Zola

You can imagine the trouble, however, we had with the nudes.
Extract from : « Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays » by Various

Do you know, I think it would have been just as well not to have had any nudes?
Extract from : « Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays » by Various

His nudes are as masterly in painting as Manet's, and more supple.
Extract from : « The French Impressionists (1860-1900) » by Camille Mauclair

Let us look first at his engraving known as the “Battle of the Nudes.”
Extract from : « The Florentine Painters of the Renaissance » by Bernhard Berenson

Of all Watteau's pictures the nudes seem undoubtedly to have been painted from Nature and not from drawings.
Extract from : « Watteau » by C. Lewis Hind

Then, adopting a reddish colour gamut, he began to create full figures of nudes, portraits and animal studies.
Extract from : « Modern Painting, Its Tendency and Meaning » by Willard Huntington Wright

The draperies are drawn over, and are made to conform exactly to the forms copied from the nudes of the underpainted picture.
Extract from : « Frederic Lord Leighton » by Ernest Rhys

His drawings were his documents, and these, like the nudes, were of course made direct from Nature.
Extract from : « Watteau » by C. Lewis Hind

The draperies are drawn over, and made to conform exactly to the forms copied from the nudes of the underpainted picture.
Extract from : « The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton » by Mrs. Russell Barrington

Synonyms for nudes

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