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  • adjective Without corners.

Etymologies

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corner +‎ -less

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Examples

  • Central heating, rubbish chutes, proper consumption of smoke, cornerless rooms, electrically warmed beds and elimination of carpets would make a lot of difference.

    As I Please 1945

  • The first of these produced nothing but a cornerless five of clubs, but the second had a beautiful white blank – just what I needed.

    Try Anything Twice 1938

  • The more curved and cornerless the outline, the more tender and flexible the character; and the more rectilinear, the more pertinacious and severe the character.

    The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science Various 1909

  • It was a pale little mouldy sort of flower, with red eyes and a cornerless mouth like a carp, but with the authentic family nose and the appurtenances thereof, which took up so much room as to seriously imperil the prospects of the rest of the head growing in proportion.

    The Poor Plutocrats M��r J��kai 1864

  • From the cornerless office to the windowless basement.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed 2011

  • Unlike the old Toronto street grid with its right angles - where those pedestrians and bicycles come to cross the Jameson bridge - the Gardiner's cornerless roads and ramps don't begin or end, they only connect.

    Thestar.com - Home Page Alfred Holden 2010

  • From the cornerless office to the windowless basement.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed 2010

  • From the cornerless office to the windowless basement.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed 2010

  • One of the key goals of the project was to create a cornerless car that was kind to both people and the environment.

    MISSISSAUGA - Home 2010

  • One of the key goals of the project was to create a cornerless car that was kind to both people and the environment.

    MISSISSAUGA - Home 2010

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