coverless

English

Etymology

From cover +‎ -less.

Adjective

coverless (not comparable)

1. Without a cover or covers.
   • 1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:

     He took the coverless book from her hand. Chardenal's French primer.

     Penguin, 1992, p. 312

   • 1949 June 8, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], “Chapter 4”, in Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC; republished [Australia]: Project Gutenberg of Australia, August 2001:

     Beside the window the enormous bed was made up, with ragged blankets and a coverless bolster.

   • 2007 January 21, Anne Eisenberg, “The Turntables That Transform Vinyl”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     And it has a sturdy dust cover, unlike the coverless Ion. The Audio-Technica’s tone arm comes assembled and can be set to raise and lower itself from the turntable automatically

Derived terms

• coverlessness