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- adjective   Lacking fibres 
Etymologies
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Examples
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								Foods such as sweets, white flour products, white sugar and refined foods should be avoided as fibreless refined foods allow particles to accumulate on the teeth. 
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								During the hot season it blooms freely, growing close to the ground, bearing its leaves and blossoms upon its upper surface; when these fall off, the stems become dry and ligneous, curving upward and inward until the plant becomes a ball of twigs, containing its closed seed-vessels in the centre, and held to the sand by a short fibreless root. Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. Various 
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								As she drew nearer to me, and nearer, she appeared to be entirely oblivious of the fact that I was anything but the fibreless, emasculated creature which, up to that moment, she had made of me. The Beetle Richard Marsh 
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								Gilbert and Sullivan, in lieu of some of these boneless, fibreless "musical comedies" where masculine horse-play alternates with the gymnastics of prancing females, and the music tinkles on and on, touching never a chord of human feeling! Harrison, Mrs. Burton, 1843-1920. Recollections Grave and Gay 1911 
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								No, it is the unexercised and fibreless, in whom no adequate store of material has ever been laid up, that will peak and pine under toil. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 of Samosata Lucian 1895 
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								What a sapless, fibreless thing is a man untrained by endurance and untaught by suffering! The Chief End of Man George Spring Merriam 1878 
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								Siegfried; and in _Gengangere_ (Ghosts), 1881, Ibsen threw, by the sickly craving of the fibreless Oswald Alving for Regina, a lurid light across that awesome tragedy of shadows, Nemesis, and blank despair. The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume I Aphra Behn 1664 
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								£1. 5bn to light up 10 million homes by 2010, this still leaves plenty of homes fibreless and relying on existing landlines. broadband reckons that taking superfast lines to curbside cabinets - a partial fibre deployment - would cost £5. 1bn. 
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