Definitions

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  • adjective Without perfume.

Etymologies

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perfume +‎ -less

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Examples

  • I am a poor little perfumeless flower, having no sweetness or beauty with which to charm the eye or senses, only fit to grow among the kitchen herbs -- rue and thyme, and such old-fashioned things.

    Not Pretty, but Precious Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford 1878

  • Bah! and look at those nuns: they are animated coffins, holding only dead remembrances and dried, perfumeless flowers. "

    The Grey Cloak Harold MacGrath 1901

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