archless en · ADJ
Etymology
From arch + -less.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Lacking arches.
archless door frames
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.
1913, Will Levington Comfort, The Road of Living Men, Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, Part III, 16, pp. 275-276: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.
1946, Mervyn Peake, “Blood at Midnight”, in Titus Groan, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode:
Translations (2)
pt desarcado (lacking arches) · pt sem arco/arcos (lacking arches)