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  • adjective Without tobacco.

Etymologies

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tobacco +‎ -less

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Examples

  • Africa, for that village by the tobaccoless husbands of the clothesless wives.

    Travels in West Africa 2003

  • Some time after, the grasping man discovered that the pearl had been found in the “meat” of a “helmet” shell which had been roasted by a hungry and tobaccoless boy.

    Tropic Days 2003

  • It is no fault of Cassidy's if a "gringo" covers the Pan-American on foot or seated with peons, or goes hungry and thirsty or tobaccoless on the journey; and penniless strangers are not conspicuous by their absence along this route.

    Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras — Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond Harry Alverson Franck 1921

  • This one moment of triumph was worth all the long miserable winter with its butterless bread and tobaccoless pipes.

    Across the Years 1894

  • Some time after, the grasping man discovered that the pearl had been found in the "meat" of a "helmet" shell which had been roasted by a hungry and tobaccoless boy.

    Tropic Days 1887

  • "Thinkin 'of buyin' that 'ar gulf, buddy?" asked the captain, made sarcastic by his narrow escape from a tobaccoless voyage.

    The Wit and Humor of America, Volume X (of X) Various 1887

  • "Thinkin 'of buyin' that'ar gulf, buddy?" asked the captain, made sarcastic by his narrow escape from a tobaccoless voyage.

    Roads of Destiny O. Henry 1886

  • The tobaccoless punchers arranged themselves comfortably on the steps of the store.

    Heart of the West [Annotated] O. Henry 1886

  • There on one side of the Channel he shows the dejected old lion of Malines gnawing his tobaccoless clay pipe, and then on the other the noble beast stalking along jauntily with tail erect and havannah alight.

    In Bohemia with Du Maurier The First Of A Series Of Reminiscences Felix Moscheles 1875

  • But as the regulatory debate over the tobaccoless nicotine delivery systems rages on, a new issue has come to light: How much nicotine, if any, are these e-cigarettes actually sending into users 'brains?

    Fast Company Erica Westly 2010

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