(1) In the 30s, a number of young men and women took to naked rambling in the countryside at weekends: open-air nudism was considered an excellent path to health.
Nudist
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Example Sentences:
(1) A third Canadian has reportedly been charged in connection with the nudist stunt.
(2) The writer's joking offer of "nudist" as an analogy is telling.
(3) The term "foodist" is actually much older, used from the late 19th century for hucksters selling fad diets (which is quite apt); and as late as 1987 one New York Times writer proposed it semi-seriously as a positive description, to replace the unlovely "gastronaut": "In the tradition of nudist, philanthropist and Buddhist, may I suggest 'foodist', one who is enthusiastic about good eating?"
(4) George Orwell berated them as "fruit juice drinkers, nudists, sex maniacs, Quakers, nature-cure quacks, pacifists and feminists", while others have, outrageously, labelled them Guardian writers and readers.
(5) He warned: "It risks it being used for those who seek to protest peacefully, noisy children in the street, street preachers, canvassers, carol singers, trick-or-treaters, church bell ringers, clay pigeon shooters, nudists.
(6) Years ago we’d just made ourself comfortable on a stretch of black sand when our then six-year old son asked, “Why is no one wearing any clothes?” It turned out we were on the German nudist beach.
(7) In Britain, the sin is similar to visiting a nudist beach with your clothes on.
(8) Before the bright young things sported tans, they were the preserve of consumptives, the malnourished, health obsessives and nudists.
(9) Even the beach is something of a challenge, with its particular stretches for nudists, gays, couples-at-it and peeping Toms.
(10) Bryan Forbes (A Shot in the Dark, 1964) Bryan Forbes Photograph: The Ronald Grant Archive In the second, arguably the best, of Blake Edwards's "Pink Panther" comedies, the British actor-writer-director Bryan Forbes plays the guard at a French nudist camp that Peter Sellers's Inspector Clouseau and Elke Sommer try to get into.
(11) My husband and I moved to north Goa eight years ago, though I first visited with my family 30 years ago, when I was four; we drove down from Bombay in the car, my brother seeing his first nudist on the beach, his mind blown.
(12) The most infamous of these is Gunnison Beach, one of the few legal nudist beaches on the eastern seaboard.
(13) The first nudist clubs were called Sun Clubs, dedicated to the great and healthy outdoors.
(14) Peers voted by 306 to 178, majority 128, against the plans amid fears that noisy children, carol singers and nudists could fall victim to the new injunctions .