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  • adjective Without a contour or contours.

Etymologies

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contour +‎ -less

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Examples

  • Despite the complexity of recreating late Renaissance, Mannerist and Baroque landscape elements, not to mention the signature terracing of the original site in contourless prairie country, the project is finished in record time.

    The Return of the Intergalactic Planetary Landscape Architect 2008

  • The observation screen showed the blackness of empty space, overlaid by a contourless veil of cold points of light.

    Parlor Games Carol Reid 2010

  • The solid, contourless body, like a block of granite, and the rasping red skin, bore the same relation to the body of a girl as the rose-hip to the rose.

    Nineteen Eighty-four 2008

  • Despite the complexity of recreating late Renaissance, Mannerist and Baroque landscape elements, not to mention the signature terracing of the original site in contourless prairie country, the project is finished in record time.

    Archive 2008-05-01 2008

  • The solid, contourless body, like a block of granite, and the rasping red skin, bore the same relation to the body of a girl as the rose-hip to the rose.

    Nineteen Eighty-four 2008

  • Her tiny, straight, slender body was a contourless as a bas-relief carved upon a tree.

    Burmese Days 2002

  • Mrs Lackersteen was a woman of about thirty-five, handsome in a contourless, elongated way, like a fashion plate.

    Burmese Days 2002

  • Around him the circular command center of the super-spaceship Stardust II took on form once again: switch consoles, control panels, videoscreens, chairs and tables emerged from the gray contourless state of hytrans and regained their familiar shape.

    Venus in Danger Mahr, Kurt 1976

  • The solid, contourless body, like a block of granite, and the rasping red skin, bore the same relation to the body of a girl as the rose-hip to the rose.

    Nineteen Eighty-Four 1949

  • First of all, it demonstrated clearly that plagiarism is a matter of perception and is therefore a contourless creature.

    signandsight.com 2010

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