Meanings
plural desnudas
- USA topless female street performer covered in body paint who poses for photographs in exchange for tips in the pedestrian plaza of New York City's Times Square.
Muslims, and a number of Americans alike, would be alarmed with some of the street performers found in New York's Times Square, especially the daily routine of desnudas.
2017, Tim Delaney, Social Deviance1 more example
She shielded her nipples until they were cloaked with brush strokes[.] […] This was part of Ms. Ovalles’s daily routine as a desnuda, a Spanish word meaning naked that has been embraced by the women who strut around the Times Square pedestrian plaza topless and covered in body paint to pose for photos in exchange for tips.
2015 August 14, Collen Wright, “The Desnudas of Times Square, Topless but for the Paint”, in The New York Times
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*negʷ-“bare, naked”
- Latinnūdus“naked, nude, undressed”
- Spanishdesnuda
- Englishdesnuda
Borrowed from Spanish desnuda, the feminine singular of desnudo (“naked, nude, undressed”), ultimately from Latin nūdus (“naked, nude, undressed”) and Proto-Indo-European *negʷ- (“bare, naked”).
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Finnish desnuda
- desnudatopless female street performer covered in body paint who poses for photographs in exchange for tips in the pedestrian plaza of New York City’s Times Square
Spanish desnuda
- desnudatopless female street performer covered in body paint who poses for photographs in exchange for tips in the pedestrian plaza of New York City’s Times Square
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desnuda. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/desnuda
“desnuda.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/desnuda. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “desnuda,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/desnuda.
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