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Definition of Pipless
1. having no pips [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pipless
Literary usage of Pipless
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Precious Stones: For Curative Wear : and Other Remedial Uses : Likewise the by William Thomas Fernie (1907)
"... and, quite recently, the pipless apple. Charles Lamb (Elia's Essays) has
immortalised (for his hospitality) one of his neighbours, " Dr. Anderson, ..."
2. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1881)
"... and especially in transparent apples and pipless pears, whilst for ten miles
round stretched the level steppe, with и* fat black soil. ..."
3. Nye and Riley's Wit and Humor: (poems and Yarns) by Bill Nye, James Whitcomb Riley (1905)
"Any one who may have such a horse or pipless fox will do well to communicate with
me in person or by letter, enclosing references. ..."
4. Nye and Riley's Railway Guide by Bill Nye, James Whitcomb Riley (1889)
"Any one who may have such a horse or pipless fox will do well to communicate with
me in person or by letter, enclosing references. ..."
5. More Queer Things about Japan by Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen, Norma Lorimer, William Adams, Hokusai Katsushika (1905)
"It is served without milk or sugar, but the queer Japanese sweetmeats made of
bean-flour, and their little pipless oranges, are often served with ..."
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