showerless
adjEtymology From shower + -less.
1
Without a shower (bathroom fitting).
- 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.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:
2
Without taking a shower (type of wash).
- We had to go showerless all week during the water outage.
3
Dated Rainless.
- Derived terms
- showerlessness