a. [f. LAMP sb.1 + -LESS.] Destitute of lamps.
a. 1625. Fletcher, Mad Lover, II. i. Your Ladies eyes are lamplesse to that vertue.
1819. Shelley, Cenci, V. iv. 59. The wide, grey, lampless, deep, unpeopled world!
1849. J. Sterling, in Fraser’s Mag., XXXIX. 411. A lampless archway.
1884. A. J. Butler, Anc. Coptic Ch., I. i. 36. More often in the present day they are uncoloured and lampless.
