open-breasted

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open-breasted (comparative more open-breasted, superlative most open-breasted)

  1. (now rare) Frank, unsecretive; not concealing one's feelings. [from 16th c.]
    • 1613, John Marston, William Barksted, The Insatiate Countess, III.2:
      Hark you, what lady's that? / Be open-breasted, so will I to thee.
  2. With the breast exposed; (of clothing) not covering the breast. [from 16th c.]
    • 2014 September 5, Ariston Anderson, The Hollywood Reporter:
      Franco, with a shaved head covered in Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift tattoos and mustache, wearing a '70s-style open-breasted velvet suit, came to the stage to accept the fictional award, saying simply, "That's not my name."