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- adjective Without a
hen .
Etymologies
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hen + -less
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Examples
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The rain had ceased and a little pale sunshine cheered the cottages, the henless, dogless, empty road.
The Happy Foreigner Enid Bagnold 1935
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One night she heard a piteous baaing, and, seizing a broom, rushed to the now henless hen-house, in which she kept the calf, to find in it a full - grown panther attacking her pet.
Memoirs Charles Godfrey Leland 1863
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