flylessadj.
/ˈflʌɪlɪs/ Without flies.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > pest control > [adjective] > driving away flies > without flies
flyless1904
1904 Daily Chron. 28 July 4/7 You leave Brindisi..in a perfectly fly-less ship.
1906 Daily Chron. 2 Oct. 4/7 The window~panes of a hitherto flyless house.
Derivatives
ˈflylessness n.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > pest control > [noun] > device for catching flies > condition of being without flies
flylessness1918
1918 W. Hutchinson Doctor in War (1919) xviii. 254 This miracle of flylessness was achieved..even in most of the Ospedali da Campo and Ospedaletti da Campo in the..camps just behind the Front.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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