backless
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backless (not comparable)
- Having no back, especially where one would be expected, as with a chair or a dress.
- a backless surgical gown
- 1885, George Moore, A Mummer's Wife
- The apartment was almost dismantled; chairs lay backless about the floor amid china shepherdesses and toreadors; pictures were thrown over the sofa, […]
- (of a person) Having the back uncovered, showing the skin.
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Translations[edit]
having no back
having a back that shows skin
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