a. [-LESS.] Without a table; unfurnished with a table.
1843. G. P. R. James, Commissioner, xlvii. 294.
Lo, mighty mill-owner, respected lord, | |
Yon wretch, in that dark cabins walls abhorrd, | |
Tableless, stoolless, bedless, there he lies, | |
Want in his heart and misery in his eyes. |
1887. H. Knollys, Sk. Life Japan, 183. I am conducted into the enlarged partition in a dolls house, clean as a match-box, but tableless and chairless.
1895. Strand Mag., Oct., 451/1. The tableless, curtainless, carpetless, chestless apartment.