carpetless
English
Etymology
carpet + -less
Adjective
carpetless (not comparable)
- Not carpeted
- 1883, Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), Life on the Mississippi, Part 9:
- Presently a sudden silence fell upon the grumbling audience, and everybody's eyes sought a single point--the wide, empty, carpetless stage.
- 1898, Annie Fellows Johnston, The Giant Scissors:
- The little bare feet made no noise on the carpetless floor.
- 1907, George Washington Cable, Old Creole Days:
- His parlor was dingy and carpetless; one could smell distinctly there the vow of poverty.
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