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  • adjective Without a vest.

Etymologies

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vest +‎ -less

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Examples

  • Mountjoy - you mean you go vestless, you'll regret that when yo get older, or so my mam used to say.

    Absent Friends Valleys Mam 2008

  • He wore a white shirt, as being holiday-making, but had not managed a collar; his pants were dark-blue, slightly belled; his coat, dark-brown; his boots wore highly polished; round his neck was a silk handkerchief; round his vestless waist, a discoloured leather belt; above all, a wide-brimmed cabbage tree hat, encircled by a narrow leather strap.

    The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel John Maurice Miller

  • He was hatless, vestless, and evidently had just enjoyed a morning drink.

    The Lone Star Ranger 1914

  • There again was the angled, low-celled room of the country tavern, reeking with food and lamps and perspiration; for a central figure the man of surpassing homeliness, -- coatless, tieless, and vestless, -- telling a story in the vernacular.

    The Crisis — Volume 04 Winston Churchill 1909

  • Every gentleman in the room was collarless, coatless, tieless, and vestless.

    The Crisis — Complete Winston Churchill 1909

  • There again was the angled, low-celled room of the country tavern, reeking with food and lamps and perspiration; for a central figure the man of surpassing homeliness, -- coatless, tieless, and vestless, -- telling a story in the vernacular.

    Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909

  • Every gentleman in the room was collarless, coatless, tieless, and vestless.

    The Crisis — Volume 03 Winston Churchill 1909

  • There again was the angled, low-celled room of the country tavern, reeking with food and lamps and perspiration; for a central figure the man of surpassing homeliness, -- coatless, tieless, and vestless, -- telling a story in the vernacular.

    The Crisis — Complete Winston Churchill 1909

  • Every gentleman in the room was collarless, coatless, tieless, and vestless.

    Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909

  • Coach Robey, coatless, vestless, hatless, his old flannel trousers held up as by a miracle with the aid of a leather strap scarcely deserving the name of belt, pushed his way through the first squad players.

    Left Guard Gilbert Ralph Henry Barbour 1907

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