How To Use Naked In A Sentence

I have no great picture of her to link because I am out of town in San Francisco and all the pictures I have are the naked librarian Playboy centerfolds I got in email a few days back.
I had to join this long queue, that snaked around a couple of times, and as each person left, a disembodied voice said, ‘Cashier number seven, please!’
They kept to the brush and trees, and invariably the man halted and peered out before crossing a dry glade or naked stretch of upland pasturage. War
The artist had depicted her lying naked on a bed.
The mite is just visible to the naked eye.

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They stood, without any respect for regularity, on each side of a straggling kind of unpaved street, where children, almost in a primitive state of nakedness, lay sprawling, as if to be crushed by the hoofs of the first passing horse. The Waverley
The women, all middle-aged, were naked, masking their state of undress behind the banner.
It was so cold that nobody can make his hands naked.
He lies on a rock, a mountain looming above him and his naked body partially covered by a white dress.
a bare hillside. Naked can mean 'without a protective covering':a naked sword.
Ironic, because this is genuinely naked food, stripped bare, revealing all, hiding nothing.
Dey allowed de patterollers to snoop around an 'whup de slaves, mother said dey stripped some of de slaves naked an' whupped 'em. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 1
A calendar picturing semi-naked men, shot in aid of a village school, has caused uproar after proving too hot to handle.
It would be identical to diving into a pool of 40-degree water naked, even at the warmest time of year.
We had become the naked ape. Times, Sunday Times
The bestseller lists are full of books highly critical of religion, countered by pundits whose heated rhetoric decries a public square made “naked” by the absence of religion.2 Yet the fault line between those who are religious and those who are not hardly exhausts the ways in which religion can be divisive. American Grace
There were some stunningly ignorant comments on the wero, asking why important visitors to New Zealand were greeted by "a Maori New Zealander jumping around half naked".
He had a brace of pistols in his belt, a musquetoon under his feet, his naked sword behind him. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845.
A premature grab for a safe Westminster seat would be seen as naked opportunism. The Sun
The result is a somewhat funny-looking, normal sized boiler chicken that carries the special naked gene.
The stills are generally made of naked copper; the acid works upon that metal, and forms with it the _acetate of copper_, or verdigrise, part of which passes with the whiskey. The Art of Making Whiskey So As to Obtain a Better, Purer, Cheaper and Greater Quantity of Spirit, From a Given Quantity of Grain
Under it she was naked but for a pair of the skimpiest bikini briefs. HIDING FROM THE LIGHT
I suggest you don't make a habit of going around half naked.
I told him the unvarnished truth except for the part about you quivering stark naked with cold in the shower compartment. CORMORANT
But naked, she was thin and somehow unappetizing, and for reasons I can't articulate, looking at her breasts six inches from the bread, I lost my appetite.
Like a kid, Mr. Mailer was fascinated by his own naughtiness -- his earliest critics castigated him for the vulgarity of his language, though his editors insisted that he use the word "fug" in "The Naked and the Dead. A Boy's Life
Power lines and telephone cables can be set in place even if all you need for now is a naked bulb.
Indeed, it was Captain William Fall, out in the distance, just barely visible to the naked eye.
Small as are the capitula of this flower, its seeds or achenia are armed with awns having reflexed hooks scarcely visible to the naked eye; it is these that are found so troublesome among the wool. Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia
In "La muerte en el este de EdÃ©n/Death in the East of Eden," Hernandez has painted Eve, our foremother, as a dead naked woman wearing the mask of a luchador with orange antlers. Max Benavidez: ELAC's VPAM: A Game Changer for L.A. Art Scene
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The idea came to him that he must do something more than usual to attract the attention of God, and he turned back the rug which was in front of his bed so that he could kneel on the bare boards; and then it struck him that his nightshirt was a softness that might displease his Maker, so he took it off and said his prayers naked. Of Human Bondage
He played on manfully on stages in basement clubs as naked Metropolitan policemen danced the conga. Times, Sunday Times
There are a handful of real tech stormers (like "A Roboter"), a handful of really pretty, nearly beatless minimal compositions (see "Awaking Naked"), and another few, like this one, that find the line between the two and hop back and forth between both worlds. Slippy (Music (For Robots))
Beneath, where even in August noonday, the sun cannot find its way by a chink, and babies lie stark naked in the cavernous shade, Allen Street presents a sort of submarine and greenish gloom, as if its humanity were actually moving through a sea of aqueous shadows, faces rather bleached and shrunk from sunlessness as water can bleach and shrink. Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It
Admitting then that gneiss, mica-schist, granite, diorite, &c, were once necessarily covered up, how can we account for the naked and extensive areas of such rocks in many parts of the world, except on the belief that they have subsequently been completely denuded of all overlying strata? X. On the Imperfection of the Geological Record. On the Poorness of Palaontological Collections
Dust mites are tiny creatures, invisible to the naked eye.
Some students will perform the exercise best if naked and undistracted by clothing touching them. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
Stripped naked of additives and processes, save a pinch of stabilising sulphur dioxide for all but the purists, the finished product is surprising and fractious. Times, Sunday Times
I snarled and she took a step backwards, glancing at the naked blade in my hands.
For me, therefore, Meursault is not a piece of social wreckage, but a poor and naked man enamored of a sun that leaves no shadows. Classics of Confusion
The day he sunbathed naked outside the kitchen window, I swear there was printing on the window that read "Objects may appear disappointingly smaller in direct sunlight. Denise Vivaldo: Cut Your Turkey
The police found traces of blood on his jacket that were invisible to the naked eye.
No clothes, no corruption, Fong had reasoned: how do you go about bribing a naked man?
I have come to this world , stark - naked ; am I to back , blink, in the same stark - nakedness?
With the bumsters' new focus on butt-cleavage within the society of the naked ape, push-up brassieres will have to compete aggressively to bring attention back to the chest.
There are similarities in the practices of both sects: initiation is by tearing out the hair, and the lifestyle is one of extreme austerity involving nakedness, penances, and ordeals.
Body workers sometimes work with clients who are naked, although more often they are covered with a sheet.
What he did was wrong, but ok, its over, let them move on. rihanna is constantly saying how she wants to be a role model for these girls, buttruth is that if the get out of the situation of domestic violence, theyll sink right back in. she dresses half naked (her white bandaged body @ the award show) and she has gun tatoos and has guns in her her music videos. so shes promoting fire arm then. shes tryign to make him look like a monster, he is just a man. she played her part in the situation, and i just think its time people stop talkin about this. theres no progress in regressing! ABC Yanks Chris Brown “Good Morning America” Performance
Through his telescope he could see millions of stars that were invisible to the naked eye .
Mr. Wilson, standing butt naked and covered from head to toe in slime before a joint meeting of Congress, should apologise to the President and the American people for his crude and childish behavior. First on the Ticker: GOP heckler blasted by 2010 challenger
Another man turned away from her, when she approached him, to have his goblet of paga filled by a luscious, half-naked, collared slave. Cinnamon Roll
The folklore of the ancient Dogon tribe of West Africa dates back thousands of years and speaks of the star Sirius B, which was invisible to the naked eye. Supernatural - Paranormal, ESP, Occult
You always need secrets to barter with, the more important the secrets the safer you are, because you never know when you or an underling or overling will make the mistake that leaves you as naked and as helpless as a spiked butterfly. Noble House
Complaints reportedly focused on the opening ceremony, in which more than 56 million Americans watched a man in a full bodysuit parade as a naked statue of Eros, the Greek god of love.
The peaks of Mount Kilimanajaro are now naked of snow for the first time in our own 10,000-year long geological period.
The top part of the frame still hung naked, an intercrossed cage of steel. The Fountainhead
The road snaked upward, its old pavement cracked in places, making the ride a bit rough.
Pale skin, smooth all over, little pink nipples on a smooth, flat chest, snub nose with a little pale spray of freckles, big, _big_ blue eyes, naked as a jaybird, but for the brass-colored bobby-pins holding up her braids. Asimov's Science Fiction
Her pieces feature groups of young pale-skinned models, often naked from the waist down and with a blank expression on their faces.
The girl looked at her surroundings and became aware for the first time that around her were dead birds of unknown species, naked of their feathers.
Mother was referring to the infamous story of Helen Potter, daughter of a multimillionaire beer and wine distributor in Hyannis Port who, after she had been engaged to the son of a wealthy Boston builder, was discovered naked in bed with her closest girlfriend. Olivia
And from the storm that swirled a formal nakedness took shape, the truth of disguise and the mask of belief were joined forever.
The deacon found and served Christ in the poor, the hungry and thirsty, the stranger and the naked, the sick and imprisoned.
I had a dialect coach on the set of the film and he advised me to look at myself naked in the mirror, to tame myself. Times, Sunday Times
Naked of religion, naked of reference to faith.
In the early days of electric lighting, fixtures intentionally flaunted naked bulbs so that no one could possibly mistake them for gas.
His decision not to hold a poll is a "nakedly cynical" calculation that he can "bulldoze" the treaty into law. Archive 2007-09-01
Picrochole thus in despair fled towards the Bouchard Island, and in the way to Riviere his horse stumbled and fell down, whereat he on a sudden was so incensed, that he with his sword without more ado killed him in his choler; then, not finding any that would remount him, he was about to have taken an ass at the mill that was thereby; but the miller's men did so baste his bones and so soundly bethwack him that they made him both black and blue with strokes; then stripping him of all his clothes, gave him a scurvy old canvas jacket wherewith to cover his nakedness. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1
I was most overwhelmed and went to bed having nightmares about socked feet walking up and down my naked body shouting knit one purl one faster faster…
Tight as any herring shoal or starling murmuration, they darted this way and that before melting into the naked woods. Times, Sunday Times
Unfortunately it has not been possible before this to remove all diseased portions, no matter what method was applied, because often tiny lupous tubercles spring up which are almost invisible to the naked eye. Prof. Koch's Method to Cure Tuberculosis Popularly Treated
You should also know that I'm not really naked, though I may be partially undressed.
I had cut out a silhouette of a beautiful, naked woman from a neo-classical painting published in an art magazine and made it into a doll.
This organism is too small to be seen with the naked eye.
The body of King Richard III was treated with much indignity. Trussed naked over a horse and besmirched with mud, it was borne in parade to Leicester, a sad spectacle.
Mulhall, an Englishman, were still in pajamas, their naked feet thrust into THE PEARLS OF PARLAY
To the east of our school, there's a naked hillside.
I have a feeling from a half remembered lecture from a zillion years ago, that Rossetti used to slide naked down the bannisters, and kept a menagerie in his house. Desperate Romantics
Cockatiels are born nearly naked and pin feathers start to appear at about seven days.
This was accomplished by cross-breeding regular chickens with chickens naturally balding because of a ‘naked-neck’ gene.
The police found traces of blood on his jacket that were invisible to the naked eye.
The hot, high Sun in the middle of an azure blue wash - straight out of a David Hockney painting, the metal men stood erect, gazing out to sea in all their metalled nakedness.
The naked male figure was always the central theme of Greek art.
But the figure of the woman was still more awkward: an unwieldy bulk, two extended arms which seemed to bear it up with difficulty, and looked like two carved handles from the neck to the widest part of a large kilderkin, and beneath this enormous body, two legs, naked up to the knees, which could scarcely totter along. Chapter XI
Nothing a writer says surprises me anymore, not even if Jeff VanderMeer told me he did his first drafts while dangling naked upside from a coconut palm, writing in squid ink through the hollowed fingerbone of William S. Burroughs. MIND MELD: Behind the Scenes...How the Hottest Short Fiction Anthologies Are Created (Part 1)
Instead, they went after the lesser-known "petits ma î tres" (mainly 18th-century French paintings, 17th - through early 19th-century Italian and French sculptures), usually following their private tastes for soft-skinned, sensuous women and muscular naked men, whether suave and still or erotically writhing. Nice Wing, Pity About the Art
Ajax, in the archaic attitude of the ‘kneeling race’, with helmet, jambeaus and armour from which his chiton emerges, is intent on carrying the lifeless body of Achilles, naked and with his long hair falling towards the ground.
All five cast members are stark naked as they observe us taking our seats. Times, Sunday Times
The field circle definer is naked to the elements around the base like a hula hoop. 365 tomorrows » 2007 » May : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
I was stark naked but ran out into the street to direct them in. The Sun
Below, a tightly-packed steel chamber, dark but for a few naked bulbs, was filled with squat metal ten-gallon drums.
There's no way of spinning this as anything other than a purely selfish move, a cash grab out of naked greed.
When questioned by Sneddon, the youth told of making crank calls with Jackson, seeing the singer naked and witnessing Jackson "humping" a female mannequin he kept in his room. The Accuser Speaks
She explained that she had met me once before, when I was a naked cabaret artist. Times, Sunday Times
Extragalactic nebula is invisible to the naked eye.
Micheal walked in a second later, now staring at my nearly naked body.
Sluggish, heavily polluted and evil smelling, it snaked through the borough like a poisonous serpent.
According to St. Basil, forty soldiers who had openly confessed themselves Christians were condemned by the prefect to be exposed naked upon a frozen pond near Sebaste on a bitterly cold night, that they might feeze to death. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
I suggest you don't make a habit of going around half naked.
The only people politicizing the use of embryonic stem cells are those who claim that a blastula, which is an invisible to the naked eye group of cells an embryo is not the same thing as a fetus, is a human. Think Progress » Michael J. Fox: ‘I Could Give a Damn About Rush Limbaugh’s Pity…I’m Not A Victim’
The tunic lies crumped in her lap, and she looks oddly naked in just a T-shirt and jeans. THE EXILE OF GIGI LANE
Old plants can have all their leaves cut away to leave the flower stems naked and proud. Times, Sunday Times
Naked bone, such as antlers become after velvet is shed, cannot function in heat transmission because their blood supply is lost.
And if opponents aren't used to seeing such naked aggression, until they do, their immune response will be somewhat impaired.
When they appeared in the dock they constituted the largest number of people ever to appear stark naked in a court room.
The word gobi, which Europeans have corrupted into cobi, signifies in the Mongol tongue a naked desert. Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
Some were gift-wrapped, others - scissors, torches, nutcrackers - were just in their bubble packs and looked sort of naked in comparison. Times, Sunday Times
Once behind the wooden screen, her skin warmed and shifted, absorbing the dress back into her body, leaving her naked. A MILLION FACES • by Erin M Kinch
At night, our brainy babe sports a bikini, hits the local dive, and does the naked frug in front of a bunch of drunken longshoremen.
Flipping the blanket aside, he swiveled around and stood up, mother-naked. A CALL TO DARKNESS
Bacteria are too small for the naked eye.
It took the opening credits of Roger Vadim's 1968 sci-fi send-up Barbarella -- a naked Jane Fonda floating in space to the accompaniment of the oh-so-'60s theme song "Barbarella, psychedella/There's a kind of cockle shell about you" -- to convince us otherwise. Michael Sigman: Memories of a Great Friend
I usually tune into a show only after my critic chums have geeked out over it so often that I feel naked without an opinion.
Judges present decisions behind the veil of abstract principle which often conceals the naked face of consequentialist considerations of loss distribution.
At best, you're squaring up against people calling your Emperor naked and who stubbornly refuse to read your scholarly books on his stitchwork. Does Being Exist?
So, suddenly, for all the people I've ever chatted, there's my real name bollock naked. Bring me the inventor of Google Buzz. so I may hurt him.
Li Yuan rose, knowing it was important, letting Master Nan wrap the cloak about his nakedness.
My girlfriend went completely naked. Times, Sunday Times
From the bloody hematoma on his forehead to the true Manchu beard-mustache combo, bloody cuts on his body and guaranteed-to-offend tattoos, this seven-inch tall likeness of the late punker best known for using the stage as a toilet, performing naked and attacking his fans is for the hardcore only. Boing Boing
Never smoke or use spray paint near a naked flame.
Did they feel he was a voyeur, peeking in windows, watching their naked bodies, making them feel ashamed?
A very powerful naked light bulb hung from the office ceiling.
Patients wander naked behind barbed-wire fences.
Men go naked, and the women may wear goatskin skirts.
The nest contained eight little mice that were naked and blind.
What I find contemptuous is the naked ambition of most of the contestants.
At eighty-two her body is honed of every excess inch or process yet I am surprised by sudden joy rippling beneath my hands over the tender bow of neck down the white-lathered curve of spine into that naked place where pleasures live unforgotten and swans sing their final song. February « 2009 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
What they say'A funny and engaging look at the most twisted and naked branch of the entertainment world. Times, Sunday Times
She hasn't got you locked up in a room with a naked light bulb.
This star is not visible to the naked eye.
These obligations discourage a naked usurpation of power by judges.
The giggle that implies that at the sight of each other's curvacious, water-slick naked bodies his admirers forgot all about him and are now busy indulging in lesbian hijinks? 13th June '06
He was stripped naked and left in a cell.
Context is everything, so we should probably note that Christina Ricci wore the dress at right to an event honoring performance artist Marina Abramovic's MOMA exhibit, in which the artist spent the past several days -- possibly catheterized -- sitting stock still in a chair while her naked underlings elsewhere in the museum did their best to shock and awe titillated visitors. Fashion Statement: Hanging out with Christina Ricci
Or are we just gawping at a naked emperor? Times, Sunday Times
It's about the human body, so the actors and dancers are often naked.
The film opens with a tender, candlelit love scene that features both actors in all their naked glory.
And what other job subjects its staff to the "touch toes test", whereby the cabin services director checks to see if naked buttocks can been seen under the skirt - the VPL is the enemy of the well turned-out air hostess, so some of them simply ditch their underwear. Top stories from Times Online
Most stars are not visible to the naked eye.
The company has been pushing their new line of running shoes, the most high-profile ad so far being the streaking naked man at the soccer game.
The system works due to hundreds of tiny microchips - invisible to the naked eye - which are contained in a solution painted on the back of a mobile.
Consider the most famous image to come out of the Vietnam War: a child doused in napalm, naked, arms upraised, shrieking with pain, running down the road toward us.
Now under the influence of a homemade hallucinogenic substance, Oscar is making another impression altogether whether he's singing and smiling gleefully, which is spooking the guests at such a somber affair, or threatening to jump from the rooftop (while naked, of course) because he mistakenly thinks that Elaine is cheating on him. Crosswalk.com - Home
I would that I were a painter and could invite naked women to lounge about in my bottega under the guise of labor. The Poet Prince
When Norman Mailer wrote his first novel, The Naked and the Dead, he used a euphemism -- "fug" -- for fuck. Paul Krassner: Remembering Norman Mailer
I shift into a sitting position, making sure the sheets cover my nakedness.
Would-be strippers were told: 'Some strippers will remain in underwear but others may become completely naked. Times, Sunday Times
The naked mole rat goes by many names, including the potentially misleading "sand puppy" which might imply that these voracious diggers are cute and friendly fellows.
The cover prominently features the naked backside of a seductively posed, appropriately bronzed woman standing on a beach.
For example, why would teenage mutant ninja turtles (nearly naked coldbloods) want to live in frigid New York? Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » When parodying superheroes, you can do better than lampooning their clothes
Henceforth, men and women are prone to view each other as objects, which is why they are now ashamed of their nakedness.
She was naked except for a tampax and a lot of acrylic paint.
He half expected to see some naked tourist in the corner, bound and gagged.
With this kind of discharger I have been able to maintain an oscillating motion without any spark being visible with the naked eye between the knobs, and they would not show a very appreciable rise in temperature. Experiments with Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency
We're all like hermit crabs : little naked creatures that have found a suitable shell and decided to live inside it until it stops fitting. Times, Sunday Times
The many thousands of grains comprise not just emmer and naked barley, but also bread wheat - which points clearly to the Neolithic - and linseed.
Either you're woefully unprepared for a big test or you're naked.
Cricket is the national game among the school-boys of the Punjab, from the naked hedge-school children, who use an old kerosine-tin for wicket, to the B. A.'s of the University, who compete for the The Kipling Reader Selections from the Books of Rudyard Kipling
Having a lot of followers or traffic isn't enough either; if that were the case, aspiring bloggers could just deluge their sites with photos of naked women, or better yet, start a "splog" - Digital, Buzz, viral & social media marketing agency ★★★ Vanksen|Culture-buzz
At least 20 naked male students streaked past fellow students competing in athletics competition last night.
‘Further entries were scored out in black felt-tip marker pen and cannot be read by the naked eye,’ said the tribunal report.
they were attacked as they huddled nakedly on the bare hill
She would only have to sit still and clever stage lighting would make it appear as though she were naked.
Isn't this loyalty, at huge financial cost to the individuals concerned, quite amazing, given the depths of naked greed to which our national sport has plummeted in recent years?
We showed that naked DNA alone carried all the oncogenic potential of the virus. Luc Montagnier - Autobiography
The eerie squeal of a wood duck came from somewhere behind the gray tangle of naked oaks, willows cypress, elm, tupelo and cottonwood.
The former, who showed no mercy to those who were physically less endowed than them, sowed the seeds of injustice and naked brutishness that stalk the country today.
In the two weeks since Fay made landfall and snaked soggily up the peninsula, the lake has rocketed from record lows to a record rise. In Other News...
To claim victory, he will have to win the rust belt without resorting to naked protectionism. Times, Sunday Times
Stressing what the naked eye could see helped him lay the foundations of pathological anatomy, following the initiatives of the preeminent anatomist, Giovanni Morgagni.
They accordingly dismounted, and leaving their horses in a thick copse, "snaked" in the direction of a large Federal camp near at hand, taking advantage of every cover. The Romance of the Civil War
The mite is just visible to the naked eye and feeds on honey bees and their grubs by sucking their body fluids.
He gazed longingly up at the immense, empty sky that cut across the nearby horizon through the naked trees and began tramping through the snow towards it.
At the same instant a dozen red warriors leaped from the entrance of a nearby ersite palace, pursuing the abductor with naked swords and shouts of rageful warning. Thuvia, Maid of Mars
The thought of presenting her naked behind to him so crudely filled her with a wild abandon.
For three hours we snaked our way through soaring mountains covered in pine forests.
It behaves like a naked superbike with attitude. The Sun
A young man is suspended naked from a tree, prior to being flayed alive for daring to make music more harmonious than Apollo's.
This man was naked, powerfully muscled and of a copperish red rather than brown. People of the Dark
How the trees looked so naked and bare with no coverings.
Stars of the first magnitude are visible to the naked eye.
I laugh at my 76-year-old mother's anti-Catholic prejudices, because I can see the naked chauvinism behind them for what it is.
Lotta naked in the elegant bathroom, laughing beneath the shower, beckoning her handsome blond lover to join her.
Those stars are hardly visible to the naked eye.
Naked commercialism was evident in even the most ostensibly charitable aspects of the operation.
In truth, naked aggression does not suit him.
The all seemed shocked by her destroying her property and doing it so very thoroughly, that they seemed positively oblivious to her nakedness.
Naked beside Caroline in the single bed with a duvet tucked around them like a swollen toga, he charted the weeks and months ahead. THE ENDLESS GAME
Two of the most amazing mammals on Earth are the naked mole-rat and the platypus.
With authority gone, the result would be not liberty but increasing dependence on naked force to compel obedience and maintain order.
The more they appear as fakes and liars, the more they will resort to naked political power in pursuit of their goals.
Machinegun fire and explosions boomed out and helicopters clattered overhead as naked children ran for safety, screaming.
Then, overwhelmed with erotomania, she showers him with emails, attaching naked pictures of herself.’
Other parts of the curriculum are delivered in food technology workshops with naked flame gas cookers and resistant material workshops with woodwork and metalwork equipment.
The cluster is identifiable with the naked eye, and is clear with binoculars.
Anatoli Natan Sharansky was twenty-nine years old when he was seized by the Russian secret police, the KGB, taken to Lefortovo prison, stripped naked and searched, and told that he was being charged with treason, a capital offense. BARGAINING WITH THE DEVIL
The governor ordered the prisoner to be stripped naked and whipped.
They wanted to portray the Picts as alien as possible just look at the paintings of stark naked Picts with tattoes everywhere, and since male succession was the norm in most of known history, matrilinear looked pretty exotic. The Female Royal Line: matrilineal succession amongst the Picts?
She would only have to sit still and clever stage lighting would make it appear as though she were naked.