From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishin the nudein the nudeNAKEDnot wearing any clothes SYN naked He was standing there in the nude. → nude
Examples from the Corpus
in the nude• It was rumored on campus that Williams, an acknowledged free spirit, once broadcast in the nude.• Butch Beausoleil could live here in the nude and no one would give her a second glance.• On seeing him in the nude, the girls' screams of fear turn into roars of laughter.• He told me he cleans his house in the nude!• There were no new clothes, really, so the emperor was parading in the nude.• And, yeah, I want this whole scene in the nude, we're all nude, that's definite.• Why do they always perform the whole show in the nude?• The pictures show Collier on top of a New York skyscraper in the nude.• It was strange to make absolute statements in the nude.• He likes to swim in the nude. 