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laceless

laceless adjective: without laces.

Adjective

laceless (not comparable)

  1. (usually, basketballs) Without laces.
    • 1856: Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part III Chapter XI, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
      He suffered, poor man, at seeing her so badly dressed, with laceless boots, and the arm-holes of her pinafore torn down to the hips; for the charwoman took no care of her.

Origin of laceless

From lace + -less.

Questions about laceless

What does laceless mean?
Laceless means without laces.
What part of speech is laceless?
Laceless is an adjective.

Words near laceless in the dictionary

  1. laceflower
  2. laceflowers
  3. laceleaf
  4. laceleafs
  5. laceleaves
  6. laceless
  7. lacelike
  8. lacemaker
  9. lacemakers
  10. lacemaking
  11. laceman

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