Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Without a comb or crest: as, “a combless cock,”
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Without a comb or crest.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Without a
comb orcrest .
Etymologies
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Examples
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As they drew near, moustaches began to show, and I saw that they were men; whilst walking with them were women naked to the waist, combless, and far more rough and
The Story of Ida Pfeiffer and Her Travels in Many Lands Anonymous
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As they drew near, moustaches began to show, and I saw that they were men; whilst walking with them were women naked to the waist, combless, and far more rough and 'manly' than their husbands.
The Story of Ida Pfeiffer Anonymous 1879
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Witness Cris, the hairless Lyon defender who in the Madrid game put Ronaldo and Higuaín in his combless pocket.
The New Republic - All Feed Aleksandar Hemon 2010
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As soon as they entered the town, Pinocchio noticed that all the streets were filled with hairless dogs, yawning from hunger; with sheared sheep, trembling with cold; with combless chickens, begging for a grain of wheat; with large butterflies, unable to use their wings because they had sold all their lovely colors; with tailless peacocks, ashamed to show themselves; and with bedraggled pheasants, scuttling away hurriedly, grieving for their bright feathers of gold and silver, lost to them forever.
Adventures of Pinocchio Carlo Collodi 1858
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