a. [f. ZONE sb. + -LESS.]

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  1.  Not confined by, or not wearing, a zone or girdle; ungirt.

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1748.  W. Mason, Isis, 8. In careless folds loose flow’d her zoneless vest.

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1784.  Cowper, Task, III. 52. Pleasure … That reeling goddess with the zoneless waist.

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1802.  Coleridge, Lett. (1895), 370. I always thought him a bantling of zoneless Italian muses.

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1822.  Milman, Mart. Antioch, 14. Come in thy zoneless grace, thy flowing locks Crown’d with the laurel of the Gods.

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  2.  Not marked with zones or bands of color.

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1836.  M. J. Berkeley, Sir J. E. Smith’s Engl. Flora, V. II. 140. Pileus of a fleshy … substance zoneless villous white.

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1886.  J. Stevenson. Brit. Fungi, II. 7. The pileus is always zoneless, but it varies fuliginous when moist, when dry yellowish-olivaceous, with tiger-spots.

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