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shadowless, a.|ˈʃædəʊlɪs|
[f. shadow n. + -less.]
1. Casting no shadow.
1638Sir T. Herbert Trav. (ed. 2) 6 They cast their shadowes both wayes according as the Sunne is in declination, and Ascij or shadowlesse, when Sol is Zenith. 1804M. Edgeworth Ennui i. (1809) 38 She had a large assortment of fairies and shadowless witches, and banshees. 1862M. E. Braddon Lady Audley xxviii. 186 Under the bare and shadowless trees in the grey February atmosphere.
b. Of a lamp or its furniture: So constructed as to cast no shadow.
1859F. S. Cooper Ironmongers' Catal. 77 Gas chimneys, per dozen. Shadowless ditto. c1865Letheby in J. Wylde's Circ. Sci. I. 111/1 Parker's Sinumbra Lamp..was called the shadowless lamp. 1884Health Exhib. Catal. p. liv, Gasaliers and brackets with improved shadowless burners.
2. Having no shadows on its surface; unsheltered from the sun. Of light, the sky, etc.: Unclouded.
1827Pollok Course T. v. 145 Black Ethiopia, that, shadowless, Beneath the Torrid burned. c1810T. Moore Song of Hyperborean iii, That shadowless orb [the moon]. 1845E. Warburton Crescent & Cross II. 144 There was something startlingly new and strange in that wild, shadowless landscape. 1870Morris Earthly Par., Ring given to Venus 1275 And in the shadowless still morn A sense of rest to him was born.
fig.1830Praed Poems, My Little Cousins 42, I used to have as glad a face, As shadowless a brow. 1854Greenwood Haps & Mishaps 94 A day of shadowless pleasure.
Hence ˈshadowlessness.
1881Hardy Laodicean I. i. iii. 51 He saw the dinted nose of the De Stancys distinctly outlined with Holbein shadowlessness against the blue-green of the distant wood. |