Meanings
- not comparableFree from flak; not subjected to anti-aircraft fire.
We pull out of the turn and level off in an almost flakless blue sky.
1999, Sam Halpert, A Real Good War, New York: Anchor Books, →ISBN, page 922 more examples
If one had to go to war, this was the best place for it: above a flakless English Channel with well-lit targets provided by the other side.
1998, Dave McIntosh, Terror in the Starboard Seat, Toronto, Canada; New York, N.Y., USA : Stoddart, →ISBN, page 81[…] had been destroyed by the ten conscripted members of a British Lancaster, which dropped a stack of bombs out of a bright and flakless sky, leveling one end of the factory and killing twenty-two Danish workers.
2005, Kevin Haworth, The Discontinuity of Small Things, Costa Mesa, Calif.: Quality Words In Print, →ISBN, page 192
Origin
- Englishflak
- Proto-Indo-European*lewh₁-
- Proto-Indo-European*lewHs-
- Proto-Germanic*leusaną
- Proto-Germanic*lausaz
- Englishflakless
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