showerless

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

shower +‎ -less

Adjective[edit]

showerless (not comparable)

  1. Without a shower (bathroom fitting).
    • 1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, published August 1958, →OCLC, part 2, page 148:
      We avoided Tourist Homes, country cousins of Funeral ones, old-fashioned, genteel and showerless, with elaborate dressing tables in depressingly white-and-pink little bedrooms, and photographs of the landlady’s children in all their instars.
  2. Without taking a shower (type of wash).
    We had to go showerless all week during the water outage.
  3. (dated) Rainless.

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