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ˈpassportless, a. [f. as prec. + -less.] Without a passport, unprovided with a passport.
1595Chapman Ovid's Banquet of Sence Ded., Wandering like passportless men. 1877D. M. Wallace Russia xxix. 481 Regarding fugitives or passportless wanderers in general. 1919J. Buchan Mr. Standfast v. 96 It seemed to me that, in spite of being passportless, I might be able somehow to make my way. 1968Punch 16 Oct. 525/2 The Common Market..envisages a common nationality and a passportless society for most of Western Europe. 1970Guardian 24 Mar. 11/3 Europe's airport lounges are still littered with passportless Kenyan Asians. 1973Daily Tel. 5 Apr. 8/3 Passportless, on the run, he escapes into the Connecticut woods. |