poundless en · ADJ
Etymology
From pound + -less.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Without pounds (currency).
I would only the Book were an Epic, a Dante, or undying thing, that New England might boast in after times of this feat of hers; and put stupid, poundless, and penniless Old England to the blush about it!
1886, Thomas Carlyle, Charles Eliot Norton, The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, volume 1, page 177: