Meanings
adjectivetrunkless (not comparable)
- not comparableWithout a trunk.
Two vast and trunkless legs of stone / Stand in the desert.
1817 (published 11 January 1818), Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Sonnet. Ozymandias.”, in Rosalind and Helen, a Modern Eclogue; with Other Poems, London: […] [C. H. Reynell] for C[harles] and J[ames] Ollier, […], published 1819, →OCLC, page 92
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