Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having no curb or restraint.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having no curb or restraint.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Without
restraint ;uncurbed ,unchecked . - adjective Without a curb (raised margin).
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Examples
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In such a situation, there's an opportunity to make sure that designs include other life-enhancing features such as bathroom grab bars and curbless shower stalls.
Stairs can pose a problem as you get older, so take steps now to ease the climb 2010
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In such a situation, there's an opportunity to make sure that designs include other life-enhancing features such as bathroom grab bars and curbless shower stalls.
Stairs can pose a problem as you get older, so take steps now to ease the climb 2010
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For example, level thresholds or a "curbless shower," like the one shown facilitate access and they also just plain look good.
10 Questions for . . . Michael Thomas, Aging in Place Expert 2008
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For example, level thresholds (or a "curbless shower," like the one shown) facilitate access and they also just plain look good.
10 Questions for . . . Michael Thomas, Aging in Place Expert 2008
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On our narrow, curbless streets, countless rickety cars and jam-packed vans began to creep, stopping at every corner to spill out the revelers.
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But earthen pitchers are easily broken at the brink, and if the slippery streams thence flowing are not judiciously checked, they merge into a harsh flood that sweeps away all grace, like the magic fountain in the German myth, whose fairy tricklings, uncovered for a single night, burst into a curbless flood, that drowned the sleeping landscape ere the dawn.
The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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The old priest fanned his face with his curled hat, and raised one hand as he uttered a gentle chiding in reproof of curbless human sorrow.
Vittoria — Volume 5 George Meredith 1868
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The old priest fanned his face with his curled hat, and raised one hand as he uttered a gentle chiding in reproof of curbless human sorrow.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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The old priest fanned his face with his curled hat, and raised one hand as he uttered a gentle chiding in reproof of curbless human sorrow.
Vittoria — Complete George Meredith 1868
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He uses the word for the Jewish hell but once, and then, undeniably, in a figurative sense, saying that a "curbless and defiling tongue is set on fire of Gehenna."
The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life William Rounseville Alger 1863
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