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English
Etymology
From bare-backed + -ness.
Noun
bare-backedness (uncountable)
- (rare) The quality of being bare-backed.
1930 September 17, Ogilvy’s, “Back to Nature!”, in The Gazette, complete edition, volume CLIX, number 223, Montreal, Que., page 5:Paris designers have seized on this idea of bare-faced bare-backedness—and here is the result—it’s what the smartest Europeans are wearing so successfully.
1993, 靜宜人文學報: Journal of Humanities, numbers 5–7, →OCLC, page 208:That he works with his back bare a natural thing, yet, whether he should put on his clothes again for drinking tea becomes an issue. For Rosy, his bare-backedness can remind her of her romantic fancy for him before marriage, yet Charles would deem the bare-backedness to be embarrassing and indecent.
2013, Niall Griffiths, “Spring”, in A Great Big Shining Star, London: Vintage Books, →ISBN, page 64:And then Jessica in her whiteness and bare-backedness is at his side, long fingers of one hand on his shoulder, the nails white like her trouser suit, her red lips whispering in his ear, her sleek ponytail halfway down her back, wisping across the tattoo in the small.