\t What is the difference between naked and nude?ùJ.P., Cambridge, Massachusetts.\p
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\t Though often used interchangeably, naked implies unprotected, as in Shakespeare's phrase, "naked to mine enemies." Nude means merely undraped, or without clothing, as a nude statue or in a nude painting. Perhaps the difference in feeling between the two words is best summed up in Robert Graves's "The Naked and the Nude":\p