The nekked and the nood

Or what's in a word?

Saturday Nude Dancing sign in Aurora, Colorado, part of the John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive. (Source: U.S. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division/Wikimedia Commons) 

Nude comes from the Latin word nudus, which means bare, uncovered, unclothed. Very similar to gymnos from the Greek that means the same thing. Gymnos still …