a. nonce-word. [f. STEEPLE sb.1 + -LESS.] Having no steeple.
1831. Franklin Republican & Advertiser, 14 June, 4/1. A horseman turned up to the inn which fronts the steepleless meeting house of a small village in the interior of New England.
1849. Thoreau, Week on Concord, Tues. (1889), 187. The humble village of Litchfield, with its steepleless meeting-house.
