snakeless

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

snake +‎ -less

Adjective[edit]

snakeless (not comparable)

  1. Without snakes.
    • 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 302:
      He saw himself, in a smart suit and a songkok, bowed into the opulent suites of Ritzes and Waldorfs and baring, under dark glasses, a hairy chest to a milder sun by a snakeless sea.

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