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Definition of Fingerless
1. Adjective. Not having or having lost fingers.
Definition of Fingerless
1. Adjective. Having no fingers ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fingerless
Literary usage of Fingerless
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Voyage of the Vega Round Asia and Europe: With a Historical Review of by Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld (1885)
"Fingerless ... For outside work these thick gloves were too inconvenient; then
fingerless woollen mittens were ..."
2. Insect Life: Souvenirs of a Naturalist, J.-H. Fabre by Jean-Henri Fabre (1901)
"... favourable to their work, little by little they gained a superiority over the
less favoured ones, founded a race by transmitting their fingerless stumps ..."
3. Red Eve by H. Rider Haggard (2001)
"Nothing remained visible except the white fingerless gloves—why were they
fingerless, and what lay beneath them? Hugh wondered— and the white shoes. ..."
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