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columnless en · ADJ

Etymology

From column + -less.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Lacking columns.
   • The longest (known as building A) is a columnless hairpin hall, with its usual porch at the entrance, or so it would seem. 1998, Joseph Rykwert, The Dancing Column: On Order in Architecture:
   • The films with columnless structure... 1989, L. E. McCandlish, Multicomponent ultrafine microstructures: