a. Also sole-less. [f. SOLE sb.1 + -LESS.] Of boots, shoes, etc.: Having no sole; without soles.

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1790.  A. Wilson, Poet. Wks. (1876), II. 76. Rotten stockings. Soleless trampers.

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1848.  trans. Hoffmeister’s Trav. Ceylon, etc. iv. 186. Here, one was limping on with a sole-less shoe.

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1855.  Household Wds., XII. 335. Their shoes are soleless.

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1896.  Baden-Powell, Matabele Campaign, xvi. (1897), 402. Umtini, my Matabele boy, has made sandals for me to wear over—or at least outside—my soleless shoes.

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