It was like failing to possess some essential article of dress that everybody else has, and trying to cover up one's nakedness.
"The Locusts' Years"
Mary Helen Fee
Peter's face was so white that his collar and shirt seemed to be a continuation of his body-a sudden gruesome nakedness.
"Fortitude"
Hugh Walpole
Several who, when they came to us from the farmers, were decently clothed and possessed a flock of sheep, which they had earned, in a short time returned to their fastnesses in a state of nakedness and indigence, rejoicing that they had got free from the farmers, and could live as they pleased in the indulgence of their sensual appetites.
"The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies"
Robert Gordon Latham