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[ roof-lis, roof- ] / ˈruf lɪs, ˈrʊf- /
adjectivehaving no roof. without the shelter of a house: roofless refugees. Origin of rooflessFirst recorded in 1600–10; roof + -less Words nearby rooflessroof garden, roofie, roofing, roofing nail, roof iris, roofless, roofline, roof of fourth ventricle, roof of tympanum, roof plate, roof rack Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for rooflessThe veranda, roofless and open to the bitter blue sky where the seasonal gu rains sputter, serves as a makeshift neonatal ward. Somalia Famine Aid Stolen: U.N.||August 13, 2011|DAILY BEAST An entire section of the roof ripped off, leaving passengers exposed as though sitting on the top deck of a roofless tour bus. Why Planes Fall Apart|Clive Irving|April 2, 2011|DAILY BEAST He found himself outside the crumbling walls of the roofless chapel of St. Patrick. She's All the World to Me|Hall Caine To Joyce it looked an irregular mass of ruined masonry, roofless in parts and overgrown with jungle. Banked Fires|E. W. (Ethel Winifred) Savi
Farms, nearly all of them roofless and half-ruined, were dotted about over the country. The Doings of the Fifteenth Infantry Brigade|Edward Lord Gleichen The capitals are beautifully carved, though they are much weather-worn owing to the roofless condition of the church. The Cathedrals of Great Britain|P. H. Ditchfield It was roofless, and had nothing remarkable about it, save the western window, which we had seen from without.
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