laceless

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English

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Etymology

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From lace +‎ -less.

Adjective

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laceless (not comparable)

  1. (of shoes, basketballs, etc.) Without laces.
    • 1856: Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part III Chapter XI, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
      He suffered, poor man, at seeing her so badly dressed, with laceless boots, and the arm-holes of her pinafore torn down to the hips; for the charwoman took no care of her.
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