topless
topless Lexical Profile
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• adjective
Wearing no clothing above the waist, or (of a garment) designed to leave the breasts or chest bare.
"Several European beaches explicitly permit topless sunbathing during the summer tourist season."
Having no upper part, lid, cover, or roof.
"They drove along the coastal highway in a vintage topless sports car."
So lofty or high that the summit cannot be seen; immeasurably tall (literary or archaic).
"The ancient poet wrote of the topless towers of Ilium rising into the clouds."
• adverb
Without wearing any clothing above the waist.
"Tourists were advised that sunbathing topless was prohibited on the main public beach."
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Word Origin & Etymology
First recorded in the late 16th century in the poetic sense of 'having no top' or 'immeasurably high' (famously used by Christopher Marlowe to describe the 'topless towers of Ilium'); the modern sense referring to clothing and bare-chestedness emerged in the mid-1960s.