Meanings
- not comparableWithout a wash, or an act of washing.
Seventy soapless, washless days.
1918, Donald Baxter MacMillan, Four Years in the White North, page 260 - not comparableThat does not involve washing.
Beautiful women never use soap and water on their faces, since they find they can secure and retain complexions of sparkling beauty by the new washless method — the method that cleans out the clogged pores and keeps them clean.
1912, Theatre Magazine, volume 16, page 23 - not comparableThat does not need to be washed.
There are now washless dishes, painless razors, painless shoes, painless corsets, prepared soups, painless photographs (it used to give you a stiff neck for three days to have your picture taken)[…]
1924, Don Herold, So Human, page 40
Origin
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