publess en · ADJ
Etymology
From pub + -less.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Lacking a pub.
Except for the fact they were publess, the roads were very pleasant and wide.
2010, James Gibney, This Is Not about Cycling in Japan, page 89:The thankful status of this lovely, if publess, village is commemorated in a modest tablet in St Peter's Church, reached, rather unnervingly, via a sunken path between high banks densely packed with gravestones.
2012, Nat Segnit, Pub Walks in Underhill Country: