showerless
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]showerless (not comparable)
- Without a shower (bathroom fitting).
- 1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, published August 1958, →OCLC, part 2, page 148:
- We avoided Tourist Homes, country cousins of Funeral ones, old-fashioned, genteel and showerless, with elaborate dressing tables in depressingly white-and-pink little bedrooms, and photographs of the landlady’s children in all their instars.
- Without taking a shower (type of wash).
- We had to go showerless all week during the water outage.
- (dated) Rainless.
Translations
[edit]without shower
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