Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having no train: as, a trainless dress.
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- adjective Without a
train (in various senses).
Etymologies
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train + -less
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Examples
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The morning "touch" with headquarters over, therefore, I scrambled away across the silent yawning locks and the trainless and workless dam to the Spillway, over which already some overflow from the lake was escaping to the Caribbean.
Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and its workers Harry Alverson Franck 1921
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Island to DeKalb, effectively leaving passengers from Brighton Beach to Midwood to Ditmas Park trainless once again.
NYT > Home Page By NOAH ROSENBERG 2010
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