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ˈstitchless, a.
[f. stitch n.1 + -less.]
Without stitches; spec. (formerly) of a tennis ball, put together without stitches or a stitched seam. Also, ‘without a stitch’, unclothed.
1927Daily Tel. 22 Mar. 15/6 W. H. Powell..was beaten... It was due..to the fact that Powell is not yet used to the stitchless ball. 1939Joyce Finnegans Wake 451 I'd plant you..on the electric ottoman in the lap of lechery, simpringly stitchless with admiracion. 1953M. Peake Mr. Pye xvi. 128 She had left her clothes on a high rock... ‘My child..’ said Mr. Pye ‘..my stitchless child.’ |