shredless
English
Etymology
shred + -less
Adjective
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 1015450009, 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.
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References
- shredless in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913