starkers
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of starkers
First recorded in 1905–10; stark-(naked) + -ers
Example Sentences
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The new productions provide an instructive study in contrasts: between dark and light, stark and starkers, funeral and carnival, Southern Gothic tragedy and Age of Enlightenment farce.
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