Definitions
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- adjective Not containing
crumbs ; without crumbs. - adjective That does not produce
crumbs .
Etymologies
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Examples
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He glanced down at his plate, which was now crumbless.
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He glanced down at his plate, which was now crumbless.
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He glanced down at his plate, which was now crumbless.
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And he had grave doubts about the promise printed underneath: "Guaranteed crumbless."
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The carpet was as crumbless and lintless as if meals were never taken there nor work seen; and yet a little table ready set for dinner forbade the one conclusion, and a huge basket of naperies in one corner showed that Miss Janet's industry did not spend itself in housework alone.
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My dear Madam, we do not live on spotless linen, and crumbless carpets.
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On one occasion when he was keeping "bachelor's hall" or "baching" as he called it, he went to his room in the evening moneyless and crumbless.
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The carpet was as crumbless and lintless as if meals were never taken there, nor work seen; and yet a little table ready set for dinner forbade the one conclusion, and a huge basket of naperies in one corner showed that Miss Janet's industry did not spend itself in housework alone.
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The carpet was as crumbless and lintless as if meals were never taken there nor work seen; and yet a little table ready set for dinner forbade the one conclusion, and a huge basket of naperies in one corner showed that Miss Janet's industry did not spend itself in housework alone.
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We were carried through refectories, bare and crumbless; into cells over whose doors the conventual name of the occupant was written.
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