coverless

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

cover +‎ -less

Adjective[edit]

coverless (not comparable)

  1. Without a cover or covers.
    • 1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, [], →OCLC:
      He took the coverless book from her hand. Chardenal's French primer.
      Penguin, 1992, p. 312
    • 1949 June 8, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], “Chapter 4”, in Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC; republished [Australia]: Project Gutenberg of Australia, August 2001:
      Beside the window the enormous bed was made up, with ragged blankets and a coverless bolster.
    • 2007 January 21, Anne Eisenberg, “The Turntables That Transform Vinyl”, in New York Times[1]:
      And it has a sturdy dust cover, unlike the coverless Ion. The Audio-Technica’s tone arm comes assembled and can be set to raise and lower itself from the turntable automatically