a. [f. FRAME sb. + -LESS.] Without frame, having no frame.

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1862.  T. A. Trollope, Marietta, II. vii. 110. Some of the lighter and smaller frameless canvasses heaped on the top of the layer of their relatives below, in such wise as to block up the little window entirely.

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1882.  J. Payn, Thicker than Water, iii. He had a frameless, stringless glass, which stuck in his eye with the tenacity of a limpet.

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