Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Destitute of an usher or ushers.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Destitute of an usher.

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  • adjective Without an usher.

Etymologies

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usher +‎ -less

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Examples

  • With a slight inclination of his head to the breathless audience Michael passed swiftly down the aisle and out into the night, and the organist, by tremendous self-control, kept on playing softly until the excited people who had drifted usherless into the church got themselves out into their carriages once more.

    Lo, Michael! Grace Livingston Hill 1906

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