shredless

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

shred +‎ -less

Adjective[edit]

shredless (not comparable)

  1. Having no shreds; without a shred.
    • 1816, Lord Byron, “Canto III”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. Canto the Third, London: Printed for John Murray, [], →OCLC, stanza XLVII:
      There was a day when they were young and proud, / Banners on high, and battles pass'd below; / But they who fought are in a bloody shroud, / And those which waved are shredless dust ere now.

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