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  • adjective Without a carriage (in various senses).

Etymologies

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carriage +‎ -less

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Examples

  • It is a somewhat inconvenient system nowadays, but one gets quite used to it after a little, threads the narrow walk a part of his way, takes to the street the rest of the way, and steps aside to avoid passing vehicles quite as did the carriageless in the old days.

    Cuba, Old and New 1893

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