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naturist|ˈneɪtjʊərɪst| [f. nature n. + -ist; cf. F. naturiste.] 1. An adherent or follower of, or believer in, nature, in various applications. Also attrib.
1685Boyle Enq. Notion Nat. 34 Those that admit and applaud the Vulgar Notion of Nature: whom..I shall hereafter many times call Naturists. 1851Dunglison Med. Dict., Naturist, a physician who scrupulously investigates, interprets and follows the indications presented by nature in the treatment of disease. 1892Harper's Mag. LXXXIV. 803/1 Words that must have gone hard sometimes with the ‘naturist’ he happened to be praising. 1900Nation (N.Y.) 19 July 52/3 Hence, realists, naturalists, and ‘naturists’, and decadents,..and a host of other ephemeridae. 1950G. Brenan Face of Spain v. 113 He is a vegetarian and a firm adherent of the Naturist clinic in Malaga, with its theories of opposites and harmonies in foods. 1971M. McCarthy Birds of America 184 A naturist diet of fruit and raw vegetables. 2. A practitioner of naturism (sense 4). Also attrib.
1929M. Parmelee Nudity in Modern Life i. 15 We have all heard of so-called ‘naturists’, who insist that man..should discard everything artificial such as..clothing, books, cooked food, etc. 1930Observer 27 Apr. 12/5 Advocates of the health cure of complete nudity..spent a holiday in a naturist colony on an island in the Seine. 1958New Statesman 15 Mar. 330/3 Nudist clubs (‘actually we prefer the word ‘naturist’’) were in violent competition. 1963Daily Tel. 20 Mar. 22/5 The description ‘a nudist camp’, according to the naturist terminology, is defunct... Instead club members are asked to use the expression ‘sun club’ or ‘naturist club’. 1973[see naturism 4]. |