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  • adjective Without a ceiling.

Etymologies

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ceiling +‎ -less

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Examples

  • Carrie Bradshaw's tasteful dove-grey apartment was ceilingless; in her Mexican hotel room, where she slept and wept through the grief of being stood up at the altar, a microphone hovered like the promise of death.

    Is it time to put Sex and the City out of its misery? Jo Elvin 2010

  • Throughout the night rain was incessant; but its torrential tramplings on the resonant, ceilingless roof were not to be detached from the discordancies of wind and wave, save only while breath was held in expectation of whatsoever might happen after the terrifying lull.

    Last Leaves from Dunk Island 2003

  • The one ceilingless square area between the roof and the floor constitutes the house.

    The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir John M. Garvan

  • The one ceilingless room serves for kitchen, bedroom, and reception room.

    The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir John M. Garvan

  • From my height I could see down into this ceilingless rectangle.

    Tarrano the Conqueror Ray Cummings 1922

  • When I went to see the first Sex and the City film in my local cinema, which, that evening, was heavily perfumed with popcorn and musk, an inefficient projectionist lined the print up badly, meaning the boom mic hung low, visible in most interior scenes - Carrie Bradshaw's tasteful dove-grey apartment was ceilingless; in her Mexican hotel room, where she slept and wept through the grief of being stood up at the altar,

    Film | guardian.co.uk Eva Wiseman 2010

  • Described by one industry analyst several years ago as beneficiaries of a ceilingless market, directory papermakers have been hard hit by the recession.

    BangorDailyNews.com > News 2009

  • A woman speaks breath into bot, we will call her programmer, and centuries later, let’s give her genius to girls who will walk in intelligence like the night, of ceilingless heavens, and unimaginable skies.

    Finding Ada: Heroine « Inky 2010

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