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windowless, a.|ˈwɪndəʊlɪs| [f. window n. + -less.] Not having or furnished with windows.
1760–72H. Brooke Fool of Qual. (1809) II. 125 Naked walls and windowless rooms. 1836Sterling in Carlyle Life ii. iv, One would think he had spent his whole life in the Younger Pliny's windowless study. 1863Kinglake Crimea I. xiv. 249 The windowless vans which are used for the transport of felons. 1887Rider Haggard Allan Quartermain xvi, The moon..threw great..patches of light through the high windowless openings in the walls. Hence ˈwindowlessness.
1917A. K. Cook About Winchester Coll. 228 The comparative windowlessness, and the positive ugliness, of the back of School. |