Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having no wall.

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Examples

  • One sermon speaks about Joseph and Mary in their pendize one of many diverse spellings of pentiz and notes that it was wawles, “wall-less.”

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • One sermon speaks about Joseph and Mary in their pendize one of many diverse spellings of pentiz and notes that it was wawles, “wall-less.”

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • This simple stand stood in the shadows of the late afternoon sun -- wall-less and dirt-floored, a simple wood structure painted deep green -- mostly roof -- reminiscent of barn boards and with generous wood benches loaded with premium produce.

    Steve Poses: On the Road: Farm Stands of the Hudson River Valley, NY Steve Poses 2010

  • He could see, fading away into the blue distance, lines of open structures which he could only describe as roofless-and largely wall-less - buildings.

    Tin 2010

  • But the difference between their wall-less roof and the castle in the sky of many a Ph.D. candidate is not large, except in decoration and scope.

    History, Language, and the Higher Blarney superversive 2007

  • I took a deep gulp when you said you would go from merely wall-less to ‘further renovated’ over the holiday.

    Did Iron John Do Plumbing? | Her Bad Mother 2007

  • I took a deep gulp when you said you would go from merely wall-less to 'further renovated' over the holiday.

    Did Iron John Do Plumbing? 2007

  • I took a deep gulp when you said you would go from merely wall-less to 'further renovated' over the holiday.

    Did Iron John Do Plumbing? 2007

  • Bill lay for a few more minutes on the ground, remembering childhood nights beneath friendlier stars, when he'd dreamed of the day he would escape the wall-less prison of small-town life.

    Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2005

  • Each village has an idol under a little wall-less roof, apparently an earthern pot of grease and feathers, called Mavunga.

    Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

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