ppl. a. [f. STRIP v.1 + -ED1.] That has been stripped, in senses of the vb. Stripped gallop, a gallop given a racehorse when ‘stripped.’
1594. Gd. Huswifes Handmaid Kitchin, 1 b. Then put in halfe a handfull of stripped Tyme.
1641. in Archæologia, I. 99. Poor stript men, that had made their escapes from the rebels.
1683. Moxon, Mech. Exerc., XIV. xxii. ¶ 3. 207. The Compositer … coming to his Stript Form, or Quarter of the Form he is to Destribute, he places [etc.].
1714. E. Ward, Field-Spy, 26. Like a strip’d Gamester or a ruin’d Beau.
1844. Rep. Sel. Comm. Tobacco Trade, Min. Evid., 232. The stripped tobacco is an article which is manufactured by the extraction of the stalk.
1869. G. J. Chester, Transatl. Sk., 264. Making indelicate remarks on the personal appearance of the stripped soldiers.
1896. Daily News, 12 June, 6/2. It was the first stripped gallop he ever had.
1898. J. Southward, Mod. Printing, I. 97. The following table shews the usual number of improved—that is, shaved or stripped—leads to the pound.
Hence Strippedness, the quality or state of being stripped.
1856. Mrs. Carlyle, New Lett. & Mem. (1903), II. 96. What is that quality in the skins of some women … which always suggests nakedness, striptness?
