contourless

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Etymology

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From contour +‎ -less.

Adjective

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contourless (not comparable)

  1. Without a contour or contours.
    • 1934, George Orwell, chapter 2, in Burmese Days[1]:
      Mrs Lackersteen was a woman of about thirty-five, handsome in a contourless, elongated way, like a fashion plate.
    • 1981, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Detained: A Writer's Prison Diary, London: Heinemann, Section One, p. 112,
      They would carry their private grief on their faces for a few weeks more before hiding it inside and resuming the communal, contourless monotony of prison life.

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