shredless
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Adjective[edit]
shredless (not comparable)
- Having no shreds; without a shred.
- 1816, Lord Byron, “Canto III”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. Canto the Third, London: Printed for John Murray, […], →OCLC, stanza XLVII:
- There was a day when they were young and proud, / Banners on high, and battles pass'd below; / But they who fought are in a bloody shroud, / And those which waved are shredless dust ere now.
References[edit]
- “shredless”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.