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- adjective Without a
hose .
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Examples
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Then he perceived that he was shirtless and hoseless; and that the bracelets were not bracelets, but rings of swollen flesh.
Come Rack! Come Rope! Robert Hugh Benson 1892
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Round the spur of the cover I came, and there before me I saw a wild throng of men, savage as any I have ever seen in the mines of our Mendips -- bareheaded save for great shocks of black hair, barefooted and hoseless, dressed in untanned hides of deer and sheep, and armed with uncouth clubs and spears on rough ash poles.
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Denys sprang at the shoes, and brought them to her; she smiled, and calmly seating herself, protruded her foot, shod, but hoseless, and scented.
The Cloister and the Hearth Charles Reade 1849
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