Definitions

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  • adjective Not furnished with a cushion.

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  • adjective Without a cushion.

Etymologies

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cushion +‎ -less

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Examples

  • When we pulled open the paneled, two-car door on our first morning in residence, we were greeted with great piles of rusted tools and rotting furniture—lawn mowers and Weedwackers, a stained rug, a cushionless couch.

    AMERICAN SUBVERSIVE DAVID GOODWILLIE 2010

  • He starts pulling kids off the cushionless sofa and stone-slinging them toward the door while the other kids and the jivey charismatics keep urging Juano on.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • He starts pulling kids off the cushionless sofa and stone-slinging them toward the door while the other kids and the jivey charismatics keep urging Juano on.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • He starts pulling kids off the cushionless sofa and stone-slinging them toward the door while the other kids and the jivey charismatics keep urging Juano on.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • Jackie stood in the doorway looking around, but I walked in to sit down on a cushionless window seat.

    Wild Orchids Jude Deveraux 2003

  • He sat on the cushionless couch for a while, shaking.

    IRON LAKE William Kent Krueger 2001

  • He sat on the cushionless couch for a while, shaking.

    IRON LAKE William Kent Krueger 2001

  • Not that his presence mattered anyway; Willie sat slumped in a cushionless corner of the couch, arms folded across his chest, silent and withdrawn.

    Leave a Message for Willie Muller, Marcia 1984

  • He is seated in an old high-backed, cushionless arm-chair, but an easy one, nevertheless, to him, who from dawn till sunset, has been engaged in ploughing, thrashing, ditching, or mowing.

    Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce E. R. Billings

  • There they were, with the red-hot stove and poisonous atmosphere, as usual; so my friend and I, selecting a cushionless "smoking-car," where the windows would at all events be open, seated ourselves on the hard boards of resignation, lit the tapery weed of consolation, and shrouded ourselves in its fragrant clouds.

    Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada Henry A. Murray

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