Definitions
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- adjective Having the neck bare.
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- adjective Having the
neck bare .
Etymologies
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Examples
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They go barefooted, barearmed, bareheaded and barenecked.
Tish 1916
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Pray, how comest thou to be running thus barenecked about the streets, without either gorget or kerchief?
I. Showing the Danger of Confiding One’s Secret to a Goat. Book VII 1917
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They go barefooted, barearmed, bareheaded and barenecked.
Tish Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917
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I have been told in Germany that, so far from being a sign of civilisation, this fashion is merely a stupid survival from the times when all the women of Europe went barenecked all day.
Home Life in Germany Alfred Sidgwick 1894
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Don't worry-I'll be able to tame him barenecked. "
The Golden Torc May, Julian, 1931- 1981
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During his first visit to America, while he was making some journey in a rather rough and uncomfortable canal boat, he wrote: “I am considered very hardy in the morning, for I run up barenecked and plunge my head into the half-frozen water by half-past five o’clock.
My Father as I Recall Him Mamie Dickens 1867
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