Meanings
- not comparableUS and sometimes Canada spelling of jewelleryless.
The groups I was in never went so far as to require a specific uniform, as the Pharisees did, but I must admit the lipstickless, jewelryless, skirt-dragging Bible college girls were easy to spot.
1979, Philip Yancey, “A Perfect, Empty Shell […]”, in Philip Yancey, Tim Stafford, Unhappy Secrets of the Christian Life, Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan Publishing House; Wheaton, Ill.: Campus Life Books, →ISBN, page 1402 more examples
“The spirit of the age” says we shall have wheatless, meatless, sweetless, heatless and almost eatless days, but says nothing about tobaccoless, drinkless, chewing-gumless, candyless, soft-drinkless, jewelryless, fashionless days.
1919 July 12, W[illia]m K. Conner, “‘The Spirit of the Age’”, in D. L. Miller, editor, The Gospel Messenger, volume 68, number 28, Elgin, Ill.: Brethren Publishing House, →OCLC, page 446, column 2The proper clothes for a war worker to wear are outlined in the chapter on “Grooming for Your Part,” and Dr. [Louise M.] Snyder writes: […] jewelryless fingers and arms so that you’ll have all your extremities intact; […]
1943 November 12, Yolande Gwin, “‘You’re a War Worker Now!’ Is Title of New Etiquette Book”, in The Atlanta Constitution, volume LXXVI, number 151, Atlanta, Ga., →OCLC, page 17, column 4
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