Amorous and sensual, topless, embracing chap (8)
I believe the answer is:
romantic
'amorous' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'sensual topless embracing chap' is the wordplay.
'sensual' becomes 'erotic' (I've seen this before).
'topless' means to remove the first letter.
'embracing' indicates putting letters inside.
'chap' becomes 'man' (I've seen this before).
'erotic' with its first letter removed is 'rotic'.
'rotic' placed around 'man' is 'ROMANTIC'.
'and' is the link.
(Other definitions for romantic that I've seen before include "as Darnay perhaps" , "Visionary" , "Imaginative or amorous" , "Amatory" , "Evoking love; post-Classical" .)