a. [An alteration of the earlier CLOTHELESS, after CLOTHES.] Without clothes; destitute of clothing.
1868. Morning Star, 24 Feb.
1873. Tristram, Moab, xviii. 360. We turned out to find Johnson lying clothesless and tentless.
1880. Miss Bird, Japan, I. 332. The whole clothesless population stood for the whole evening in front of the house.
Hence Clotheslessness.
1883. Daily News, 26 Feb., 5/2. In favour of the superior comfort of clotheslessness.
1887. H. Knollys, Sk. Life Japan, 16. This clotheslessness … I cannot call it indecent in our sense of the term.
