Definitions

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  • adjective Lacking bars
  • adjective Lacking a bar

Etymologies

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bar +‎ -less

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Examples

  • I almost had time to be proud of the sight of Shanks falling on his bum outside my cell as I spun back around to leap toward the barless window.

    PUSH PATTERNS by Jay Campbell | Fiction | Futurismic 2005

  • A second later, some military types came running up to the barless window, shouting for us to stop.

    When Lightning Strikes Jenny Carroll 2001

  • A second later, some military types came running up to the barless window, shouting for us to stop.

    When Lightning Strikes Jenny Carroll 2001

  • A second later, some military types came running up to the barless window, shouting for us to stop.

    When Lightning Strikes Jenny Carroll 2001

  • By the time the two aliens were installed in their barless detention cell, it resembled a small stateroom more than a cell.

    Chain of Attack Gene De Weese 2000

  • By the time the two aliens were installed in their barless detention cell, it resembled a small stateroom more than a cell.

    Chain of Attack Gene De Weese 2000

  • By the time the two aliens were installed in their barless detention cell, it resembled a small stateroom more than a cell.

    Chain of Attack Gene De Weese 2000

  • Beyond open space, in the alleyway that led to the barless door, three Trollocs were peering cautiously out of the shadows toward the lighted windows.

    The Great Hunt Jordan, Robert 1990

  • Hadn't the Russians decided that Siberia-the old barless prison state of the czars and early Communists-was a more practical frontier than the moon?

    If the Stars are Gods Benford, Gregory, 1941- 1977

  • Such an ardour possessed the men for the fight that in some it reached the pitch of fear lest they should arrive too late upon the battlefield and receive only a barless medal.

    The Story of the "9th King's" in France Enos Herbert Glynne Roberts

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