EuroLex/E/Topless 2

topless


 * Original language: English
 * Original form and meaning: adj. 2b 'bare-breasted'

(Note: If the status is not specifically indicated then the word is stylistically neutral and generally used; if earlier meaning and status equals current use the former may be expressed by writing "dito". Cf. also the project guidelines.)


 * Annotations: * DEA = Dictionary of European Anglicisms by Manfred Görlach (2001), Oxford: OUP.; ** CODEE = The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology by T.F. Hoad (1986), Oxford: Clarendon.


 * Information on Other Languages: Icelandic: topplaus, 1970s, meaning: the same as in English, see above, status: (nearly) identical to indigenous form in receptor language, form of semantic loan; Romanian: toples/-less [= English], uninfluenced, 1990s, meaning: the same as in English, see above, status: restricted use: journalese, modern; Russian: meaning: the same as in English, see above, status: word is known mainly to bilinguals and felt to be English; Bulgarian: toples, uninfluenced, end20c, meaning: the same as in English, see above, status: restricted use: journalese, modern; Greek: toples = ghymnostithi (creat.), uninfluenced, 1960s, meaning: the same as in English, see above, status: fully accepted, but still marked as English;

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