bashless
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]bashless (comparative more bashless, superlative most bashless)
- (obsolete) shameless
- a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the page number)”, in Fulke Greville, Matthew Gwinne, and John Florio, editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC; republished in Albert Feuillerat, editor, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia (Cambridge English Classics: The Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney; I), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1912, →OCLC:
- Come on Maister schoole-maister, be not so bashlesse, we say, that the fairest are ever the gentlest