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lampless en · ADJ

Etymology

From lamp + -less.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Without a lamp or lamps; unlit.
    • We may be pardoned our nostalgia, those of us who can remember the old days, the days before the grouping and before standardisation, when we see, as today we see so often, the derelict and abandoned buildings of what were once railway stations, for the life which they used to enjoy we lived with them. There they stand, today, as the dusk deepens about them, lampless, cold and deserted. 1953 April, Henry Maxwell, “Abandoned Railway Stations”, in Railway Magazine, page 270: