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▪ I. fretless, a. rare.|ˈfrɛtlɪs|
[f. fret n.2 or v.1 + -less.]
a. Free from fret or annoyance.
b. Of water: Unruffled.
1878Browning La Saisiaz 3 Fretless and free, Soul clap thy pinion! 1894A. Webster Mother & Dau. (1895) 17 A full and crystal lake..strong and fretless, stirs not.
▪ II. fretless, a.2 Mus.|ˈfrɛtlɪs|
[f. fret n.3 + -less.]
Of a stringed instrument: having no frets on the fingerboard. Also of the fingerboard itself.
1961in Webster. 1971Southern Folklore Q. xxxv. 65 Though banjos have had frets for nearly a hundred years, many North Carolina banjoists continue to favor fretless instruments. 1977Rolling Stone 13 Jan. 62/3 Burton returned later to open the second concert, joined by Eberhard Weber, whose six-string, electrified, fretless, acoustic-style bass neck added the surreal dimension that made the Ring album so haunting. 1986D. M. Randel New Harvard Dict. Mus. 916/1 The pegbox [of the Viola d'amore] terminates in the figure of a head, the fingerboard is fretless, and the sound holes are in the shape of flaming swords. 1989C. S. Murray Crosstown Traffic viii. 204 The late Jaco Pastorius..was—for all practical purposes—the ‘inventor’ of the fretless electric bass. |