Definitions

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  • adjective Lacking arches.

Etymologies

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From arch +‎ -less.

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Examples

  • Some of the faces had slightly thinner lips than their doppelgängers, or wider-set eyes, or thicker archless brows.

    Why Women Don't Want Macho Men Jena Pincott 2010

  • Some of the faces had slightly thinner lips than their doppelgängers, or wider-set eyes, or thicker archless brows.

    Why Women Don't Want Macho Men Jena Pincott 2010

  • Some of the faces had slightly thinner lips than their doppelgängers, or wider-set eyes, or thicker archless brows.

    Why Women Don't Want Macho Men Jena Pincott 2010

  • She has long straight brown hair, archless feet, hairy armpits, no makeup, and Birkenstocks with white socks.

    Dallas Blog, Daily News, Dallas Politics, Opinion, and Commentary FrontBurner Blog D Magazine » Blog Archive » DALLAS BARBIE 2005

  • She has long straight brown hair, archless feet, hairy armpits, no make-up, and Birkenstocks with white socks.

    January 24th, 2007 curufea 2007

  • In it, Mariam saw her own face first, the archless, unshapely eyebrows, the flat hair, the eyes, mirthless green and set so closely together that one might mistake her for being cross-eyed.

    A Thousand Splendid Suns Hosseini, Khaled 2007

  • At that time, I was wearing casts on both legs, to correct my archless feet.

    My life as a woman Roseanne, Barr 1989

  • Thus, the idea behind the design of an archless kiln by a British engineer (W. Bull) in 1876.

    Chapter 10 1984

  • The zigzag kiln developed by A. Habla is an archless kiln.

    Chapter 10 1984

  • Consumption in the high-draught Indian archless kiln is also approximately 3,000 MJ per 1,000 bricks.

    Chapter 10 1984

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