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- adjective rare Without an
escort ;unescorted .
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Examples
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They, in turn, brought certain of their junior and senior allies to the aid of the escortless.
Marjorie Dean, College Sophomore Pauline Lester
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The wild hill tribes among whom he went about escortless, carrying his life continually in his hand, recognised the complex strength of his personal sway, and feared at once and loved the quiet, firm man, the flash of whose eye was sometimes ominous, but who could cow the fiercest hillman without losing a tittle of his cool composure.
The Afghan Wars 1839-42 and 1878-80 Archibald Forbes 1869
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Governor walks about escortless, like a private individual, he must expect to be 'treated as such.'
To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I Richard Francis Burton 1855
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