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roofless, a.|ˈruːflɪs|
[f. roof n. + -less.]
1. Of buildings: Having no roof.
1610Holland Camden's Brit. i. 402 At Luton I saw a faire church but the Quier then roofelesse. 1725Ramsay Gentle Sheph. ii. iii, The wind made Glaud a roofless barn. 1793Cowper A Tale 38 Within that cavity aloft Their roofless home they fixt. 1835Lytton Rienzi i. xii, He gazed around upon the roofless columns and shattered walls. 1877Wallace Russia xxviii. 436 But the great majority of the houses were still roofless.
2. Of persons: Not sheltered by a roof.
1829Lytton Disowned 13 The stolen feasts and the roofless nights of those careless vagabonds. 1839F. A. Kemble Resid. in Georgia (1863) 7 Though the Irish peasant is starved, naked and roofless. 1863B. Jerrold Signals of Distress 58 These roofless creatures.
3. Applied to poker played with no limit to the raise.
1912R. W. Service Rhymes of Rolling Stone (1913) 104 Your trouble was a roofless game of poker now and then.
Add: Hence ˈrooflessness n.
1850Househ. Words 14 Dec. 267/1 In all conditions, from neat snug finish, to cheerless rooflessness. 1988Daily Tel. 24 Dec. 4/8 A major review of the working of the 1977 Homeless Persons Act is being carried out... One option is to change the present definition of homelessness to rooflessness. |