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- adjective Having no
cellar (especially nowine cellar )
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Examples
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A square, cellarless room, about twenty feet from the house, had been the study of the elder Vannelle.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863 Various
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We walked through the town, visited a vast catacomb of a wine-cellar fitted up partly as an ambulance and partly as a shelter for the cellarless, and saw the lamentable remains of the industrial quarter along the river, which has been the special target of the German guns.
Fighting France 1915
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We walked through the town, visited a vast catacomb of a wine-cellar fitted up partly as an ambulance and partly as a shelter for the cellarless, and saw the lamentable remains of the industrial quarter along the river, which has been the special target of the
Fighting France, from Dunkerque to Belfort Edith Wharton 1899
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The house was cellarless, but it was raised at the four corners on heavy blocks, leaving a space between the ground and the floor, the sides of which were partly closed by banks of ashes and earth which were thrown up against the weather-boarding.
The Strength of Gideon and Other Stories Paul Laurence Dunbar 1889
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Simple houses, cellarless, and raised some two feet from the ground on posts, with large, airy rooms, battened instead of plastered, and surrounded by verandas, are best adapted to the climate.
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All the great job-masters and horse-dealers have these retreats in the country, and the smaller ones pretend to have, from whence, in due course, they can draw any sort of an animal a customer may want, just as little cellarless wine-merchants can get you any sort of wine from real establishments -- if you only give them time.
Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour Robert Smith Surtees 1833
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