Meanings
- not comparableWithout an elephant or elephants.
Amy Avis adjusted her polka-dot hat and gave her smart TAT-TAT-TAT on Miss Pritchett's door. After a short pause the old lady opened it. She did an excellent job of looking elephantless and cross.
2016, Sylvia Bishop, Erica's Elephant, London: Scholastic, page 952 more examples
Early autumn snows made Hannibal's task even more difficult, and he came down into Italy with a force of only 26,000 men (about half the original number) and a much depleted train of elephants with which to disorganize and terrorize the elephantless Romans.
2000, Nathaniel Harris, History of Ancient Rome, London: Hamlyn, page 16What would the sick do without the sight of elephants to invigorate them? What would the Nation do when the loathsome press of Europe would sneer at us as an elephantless people? To be truly patriotic we must rid ourselves of this abject dependence on other nations for our elephants.
2008, Paul Chambers, Jumbo: This Being the True Story of the Greatest Elephant in the World, Hanover, New Hampshire: Steerforth Press, page 162
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