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- adjective Without a
pillow .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Trying to sleep on a pillowless cot under enough fluorescent lights to illuminate a casino, worrying that we'd be relieved of our personal belongings in our sleep.
"This isn't the worst thing that will happen to you today." Ann Althouse 2007
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Gilda removed the coverlet from the pillowless bed.
Fleur De Leigh’s Life of Crime Diane Leslie 1999
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Burnett was stretched out pillowless and looked black under his hollow eyes.
The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary Anne Warner 1891
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In an age of luxuriousness, they are to declare the words of Him, homeless and pillowless, who said: 'A man's life consisteth not in the abundance of things which he hath. '
Colleges in America John Marshall Barker 1888
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It is pillowless, and has covering or not, as the sleeper may wish.
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He'd slept on floors, in the pillowless crevices of old couch frames, amid the nettles and haylofts. ...
The Seattle Times 2010
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He'd slept on floors, in the pillowless crevices of old couch frames, amid the nettles and haylofts. ...
columbiatribune.com stories By MARY FOSTER The Associated Press 2010
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He'd slept on floors, in the pillowless crevices of old couch frames, amid the nettles and haylofts. ...
The Seattle Times 2010
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