Meanings
- not comparableLacking a pub.
Except for the fact they were publess, the roads were very pleasant and wide.
2010, James Gibney, This Is Not about Cycling in Japan, page 891 more example
The thankful status of this lovely, if publess, village is commemorated in a modest tablet in St Peter's Church, reached, rather unnervingly, via a sunken path between high banks densely packed with gravestones.
2012, Nat Segnit, Pub Walks in Underhill Country
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publess. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/publess
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