stark-naked
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of stark-naked
1520–30; stark + naked; replacing start-naked ( start, Middle English; Old English steort tail; cognate with Dutch staart, Old High German sterz, Old Norse stertr )
Example Sentences
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From the steep Blue Mountains of the Great Dividing Range it speeds toward the stark-naked Nullarbor Plain.
From Time Magazine Archive
When it rains they are covered by their mats, but, as they are all stark-naked, the rain can do them no harm.
From Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley by Kingston, William Henry Giles
Naturalism is realism stark-naked —the dissecting-room, and a good deal besides, which Monsieur Zola illustrated well but not wisely.
From Balzac by Lawton, Frederick
Thence, stark-naked, through the bronze doors set in green- veined marble, bathers passed into the vast frigidarium, whose marble plunge was surrounded by a mosaic promenade beneath a bronze and marble balcony.
From Caesar Dies by Mundy, Talbot
On its left bank a lamp-black vein of stark-naked basalt, capped by jagged blocks, ran down to the sea, and formed a conspicuous buttress.
From The Land of Midian — Volume 2 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
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