gardenless
adjEtymology From garden + -less.
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Without a garden.
- I was disgusted the other day, in a prosperous district of the West Riding, where public-spirited men have erected libraries and institutes for the factory hands, to find that even new cottages are still, as a rule, gardenless or with only a tiny patch.1913, Francis Wrigley Hirst, The Six Panics and Other Essays, page 243:
- Predictably, however, developers made a travesty of Cerdà's plans and a concrete orchard of gardenless, fortress-like, six- or seven-storey blocks grew up instead.2009, Time Out Barcelona, page 99:
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- I'm talking this morning to Wanda Relphs from the charity, Bleak Midwinter. Wanda, tell us what Bleak Midwinter aims to do for the homeless and gardenless.2010, Laurie Graham, Perfect Meringues: