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Topless   /tˈɑpləs/   Listen
adjective
Topless  adj.  
1.
Having no top, or no visble fop; hence, fig.: very lofty; supreme; unequaled. " The topless Apennines." "Topless fortunes."
2.
Wearing no clothes above the waist, said especially of women.
3.
Featuring entertainment by women wearing no clothes above the waist; as, a topless go-go joint.





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"Topless" Quotes from Famous Books



... darkling day, Sweet death that soothes, to life that spoils and smites? For now, perchance, life lovelier than the light's That shed no comfort on his weary way Shows him what none may dream to see or say Ere yet the soul may scale those topless heights Where death lies dead, and triumph. Haply there Already may his kindling eyesight find Faces of friends—no face than his more fair— And first among them found of all his kind Milton, with crowns from Eden on his hair, And eyes that meet ...
— Astrophel and Other Poems - Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles - Swinburne, Vol. VI • Algernon Charles Swinburne
... you that exercise the virgin court Of peaceful Thespia, my muse consort, Making her drunken with Gorgonean dews, And therewith all your ecstasies infuse, That she may reach the topless starry brows Of steep Olympus, crown'd with freshest boughs Of Daphnean laurel, and the praises sing Of mighty Cynthia: truly figuring (As she is Hecate) her sovereign kind, And in her force, the forces ...
— Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 • Arthur Acheson
... Shakespeare to translate me his love "still climbing trees in the Hesperides"? Shall I ask Marlowe how Helen could "make him immortal with a kiss," or how, in the name of all the Monsieur Jourdains, at once her face could "launch a thousand ships and burn the topless towers of Ilion"? Could Aeschylus, if put upon the stand, defend ...
— The Function Of The Poet And Other Essays • James Russell Lowell


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