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ˈstaffless, a.
1. Without a staff. rare.
a1661Fuller Worthies, Kent (1662) 67 Hereat the Queen in some passion snatching the staff out of his hand... The Lord waited Stafflesse almost a day..before the same was reconferred upon him.
2. Having no business or domestic staff; without employees. Also transf.
1957‘P. Portobello’ How to be Deb's Mum 38 Her husband nursed the chef, a foreign refugee, back to health from influenza in an otherwise staffless but turreted castle. 1965L. Meynell Double Fault ii. iii. 126 In these almost staff-less days I can't tell you how comforting it is to lie awake in the morning and hear the gravel of the drive being raked. 1976T. Heald Let Sleeping Dogs Die ii. 46 You'll have to take pot luck... I'm staffless now..but I shall be able to rustle something up. |