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shadeless, a.|ˈʃeɪdlɪs|
[f. shade n. + -less.]
1. Lacking shade, without shelter (from heat, etc.).
1814Wordsw. Excurs. vii. 143 An opening Shadeless, and shelterless. 1882Arnold in Macm. Mag. XLVI. 145 The shadeless streets of a hot and dusty town.
2. Affording no shade.
1890H. H. Johnston in Nature 13 Nov. 46 The shadeless acacias with their cruel thorns.
3. Not marked by shadows; unrelieved by shade, monotonously faultless.
1835Mrs. Browning Felicia Hemans 2 Thou bay-crowned living One, that o'er the bay-crowned Dead art bowing, And, o'er the shadeless moveless brow, the vital shadow throwing. 1894H. Nisbet Bush Girl's Rom. 13 Walter Scott was a little heavy for her with his introductions, while his heroines were just a trifle shadeless and uninteresting.
4. Not furnished with a shade.
1852Maitland Eight Ess. 237 Though for reasons of his own he might incessantly wear a shadeless cap.
Hence ˈshadelessness.
1894H. Nisbet Bush Girl's Rom. 153 Its sunny shadelessness filled him with a strange tremor of dread. 1909Eng. Rev. Apr. 70 In the wonderful light and shadelessness of that noon..I looked at you. |