lim-nacod

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lim-nacod, adj: with uncovered limbs, naked. (LIM-NAH-kodd / ˈlɪm-ˌna-kɔd)

Medieval manuscript image of a woman with her hands in the air, looking behind her, wearing only a cloth that reveals her chest, arms and legs; a haloed, bearded man comes out of the sky towards her.
Rothschild Canticles; Flanders or Rhineland, turn of the 14th century; Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, MS 404, f. 23r. [collections.library.yale.edu]

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