Definitions

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  • adjective Lacking a cork.

Etymologies

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cork +‎ -less

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Examples

  • Waiting for Rita might take awhile, so he busied himself with opening up the corkless bottle of champagne and poured himself a glass.

    A Love So Deep Suzetta Perkins 2007

  • Turns out corkless is better for the environment — the whole world is heading that way but the Americans are the ones holding it back – they still are too snobby about associating poor wines with corkless bottles.

    Cheers to Bad Wine 2007

  • Waiting for Rita might take awhile, so he busied himself with opening up the corkless bottle of champagne and poured himself a glass.

    A Love So Deep Suzetta Perkins 2007

  • Waiting for Rita might take awhile, so he busied himself with opening up the corkless bottle of champagne and poured himself a glass.

    A Love So Deep Suzetta Perkins 2007

  • As recently as the late 1990s, you would be hard-pressed to find a corkless bottle of serious wine anywhere in the world.

    How to End a Bottleneck Jonathan Karl 2007

  • I tore the bottle from The Seraph's clinging lips, and stuffed it, corkless, into my pocket.

    Explorers of the Dawn Mazo De la Roche 1920

  • They trod the snow all about to know that nothing remained, and found only a corkless flask containing a few drops of rum.

    A Dozen Ways Of Love Lily Dougall 1890

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