Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective of a garment Not covering the shoulders.
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word bare-shouldered.
Examples
-
The artist weathered it nicely: Mr. Prince's 2006 painting of a bare-shouldered "Nurse" sporting a black bustier sold to a telephone bidder for $6.8 million, near its $7 million high estimate.
Phillips de Pury Sells Cy Twombly for $9 Million Kelly Crow 2011
-
Above the carved wood frame of her headboard hung a portrait of Mrs. King as a much younger woman, smiling, in a bare-shouldered gown, the scalloped bustline of her dress framed in white ruffles.
Burial for a King Rebecca Burns 2011
-
A Mexican friend in Chicago finally pointed toward silk chiffon, dressy, garden party dresses, mid-calf length and bare-shouldered, as the dress code for ladies for such an event.
Glimpses: Cuernavaca, Mexico, June 2005 Francine McKenna 2011
-
The Good Wife — despite now airing on Sundays in an earlier timeslot on the not-so-edgy CBS — gets viewers all hot and bothered with a scene between a bare-shouldered Alicia and a fully clothed Will in not-so-flagrante delicto.
Top Moments: Flash-Dancing with Nancy Grace and The Good Wife's Sexy Tease 2011
-
Above the carved wood frame of her headboard hung a portrait of Mrs. King as a much younger woman, smiling, in a bare-shouldered gown, the scalloped bustline of her dress framed in white ruffles.
Burial for a King Rebecca Burns 2011
-
Above the carved wood frame of her headboard hung a portrait of Mrs. King as a much younger woman, smiling, in a bare-shouldered gown, the scalloped bustline of her dress framed in white ruffles.
Burial for a King Rebecca Burns 2011
-
Above the carved wood frame of her headboard hung a portrait of Mrs. King as a much younger woman, smiling, in a bare-shouldered gown, the scalloped bustline of her dress framed in white ruffles.
Burial for a King Rebecca Burns 2011
-
She was wearing what looked like a vintage dress, bare-shouldered and tight through her torso.
AMERICAN SUBVERSIVE DAVID GOODWILLIE 2010
-
Standing arms-folded, the bare-shouldered Ms. Duff braced against the evening's whipping winds.
-
One featured a bare-shouldered blond woman saying she had met Ford at the “Playboy party” and asking him to “call me.”
Midterm Roundup 2009
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.