ladyless

Well, knight, said Sir Breunor, now hast thou done me a despite; [8] now take thine horse: sithen I am ladyless I will win thy lady an I may.

Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table 2003

In due course this party of five men sat down to dinner with the usual club manners of ladyless dinner-tables, easy and formal at the same time.

Foes or Friends (1862) 1918

Well, knight, said Sir Breunor, now hast thou done me a despite; [* 8] now take thine horse: sithen I am ladyless I will win thy lady an I may.

Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of the Round Table, Volume 1 1903

I was such a little _bonnet_ among all those great people that I was practically nowhere, and at the tail end of everything except the members of the Household and the ladyless gentlemen, who, of course, were below me.

In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters 1886

In railroads the end car of the train, being that farthest removed from the smoke of the locomotive, is often reserved for them (though men accompanying a lady are allowed to enter it); and at hotels their sitting-room is the best and sometimes the only available public room, ladyless guests being driven to the bar or the hall.

Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6 Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle 1864

Viola fluttered away, and I waited till they should have had time to descend before making my own appearance, finding all the rooms in the cleared state incidental to ball preparations -- all the chairs and tables shrunk up to the walls; and even the drawing-room, where the chaperons were to sit, looking some degrees more desolate than the drawing-room of a ladyless house generally does look.

My Young Alcides Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862