zonelesshttp://www.oed.com/dictionary/zoneless_adj%3Ftab%3Dmeaning_and_usezoneless, adj.
First published 1921; not fully revised

zonelessadjective

  1. 1.
    1748–
    Not confined by, or not wearing, a zone or girdle; ungirt.
    1. 1748
      In careless folds loose flow'd her zoneless vest.
      W. Mason, Isis 8
    2. 1785
      Pleasure..That reeling goddess with the zoneless waist.
      W. Cowper, Task iii. 52
    3. 1802
      I always thought him a bantling of zoneless Italian muses.
      S. T. Coleridge, Letters (1895) 370
    4. 1822
      Come in thy zoneless grace, thy flowing locks Crown'd with the laurel of the Gods.
      H. H. Milman, Martyr of Antioch 14
  2. 2.
    1836–
    Not marked with zones or bands of colour.
    1. 1836
      Pileus of a fleshy..substance zoneless villous white.
      M. J. Berkeley in J. E. Smith, English Flora vol. V. ii. 140

zoneless, adj. was first published in 1921; not fully revised.

zoneless, adj. was last modified in December 2024.