toples
Indonesian
editEtymology
editHypercorrection of setoples as se- + toples.
Pronunciation
editNoun
edittoples (first-person possessive toplesku, second-person possessive toplesmu, third-person possessive toplesnya)
Polish
editEtymology
editUnadapted borrowing from English topless.
Pronunciation
editAdjective
edittoples (not comparable, no derived adverb)
- Alternative spelling of topless
Adverb
edittoples (not comparable)
- Alternative spelling of topless
Noun
edittoples m inan (indeclinable) or toples m inan
- Alternative spelling of topless
Declension
editDeclension of toples
Further reading
edit- toples in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Spanish
editEtymology
editBorrowed from English topless.
Pronunciation
editAdjective
edittoples (invariable)
- topless (exposing one's bare chest)
- 2013 August 16, Laura Campmany, “¿Si hay playas nudistas, por qué no hay playas para toples?”, in El Periodico[1]:
- Nosotros no tenemos la costumbre de hacer toples ni nos gusta tomar el sol rodeados de gente que lo practique, y cada año nos cuesta más encontrar un sitio de nuestro agrado.
- We don't customarily go topless nor do we like sunbathing surronded by people who do practise it, and every year we find it more difficult to find a place to our liking.
- 2012 September 17, “La ‘reina’ Kate, desnuda también en Italia”, in El Pais[2]:
- "Se ha cruzado la línea roja", advirtieron los portavoces de la casa real británica al ver las primeras imágenes en toples de Catalina.
- "A red line has been crossed", warned the spokespersons of the royal household upon seeing the first topless images of Princess Kate.
- 2007, Luis Artigue, Las perlas del loco, page 62:
- Respiró con ansia al salir y nadó hacia la orilla, se puso en pie y entonces acertó a ver que se encontraba en una playa del Caribe llena de mulatas en toples.
- He breathed anxiously when he left and swam towards the shore, got to his feet and then happened to see that he found himself on a beach in the Caribbean full of topless mulatto women.
Further reading
edit- “toples”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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