Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922.
Class II. Words Relating to SpaceSection II. Dimensions
3. Centrical Dimensions
1. General
226. Divestment.
NUDITY; bareness &c. adj.; undress; dishabille [See Investment]; altogether; tout ensemble [F.]; nudation [rare], denudation; decortication, depilation, excoriation, desquamation, slough [See Covering]; molting or moulting, exuviation; exfoliation; trichosis.
BALDNESS, hairlessness, alopecia.
PEEL, pare, decorticate, desquamate, slough, excoriate, skin, scalp, flay, bark, husk, rind; expose, lay open; exfoliate, molt or moult, exuviate, mew [archaic]; cast the skin.
IN A STATE OF NATURE, in nature’s garb, in buff, in native buff, in birthday suit; in puris naturalibus [L.]; with nothing on, stark-naked; bare as the back of one’s hand.
out at elbows; threadbare, ragged, callow, roofless; barefoot; bareback, barebacked; leafless, napless, hairless.
BALD, hairless, depilous [rare], glabrous, glabrate, tonsured, beardless, bald as a coot.
EXUVIAL, sloughy, desquamative, desquamatory.