archless

English

Etymology

From arch +‎ -less.

Adjective

archless (not comparable)

1. Lacking arches.

   archless door frames

   • 1913, Will Levington Comfort, The Road of Living Men‎^[1], Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, Part III, 16, pp. 275-276:

     The archless tunnel was shaped like the outer door of the Vatican—straight across, narrow at the top, ceiled with slabs of stone and broad at the bottom, a matter of ten feet at least.

   • 1946, Mervyn Peake, “Blood at Midnight”, in Titus Groan, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode:

     Towards this light Mr Flay suddenly turned and ran, while Swelter, whose frustrated blood-lust was ripe as a persimmon, thinking the thin man to have panicked, pursued him with horribly nimble steps for all the archless suction of his soles.

Translations

lacking arches

• Portuguese: desarcado, sem arco/arcos

Anagrams

• clashers, raschels