2. Adjective. (dated) Not wearing a hoop skirt. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hoopless
1. lacking a hoop [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hoopless
Literary usage of Hoopless
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony: Including Public Addresses, Her Own by Ida Husted Harper (1899)
"Company came and found me out in the garden picking peas and blackberries—and
hoopless A fine-looking young colored man on train presented me with a bouquet ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1823)
"... broken pots, hoopless casks, trod- den-down corn, Shetland ponies, starved
Jackasses, with masters " more ragged than Lazarus in the painted cloth ! ..."
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