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Definition of Soapless
1. having no soap [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Soapless
Literary usage of Soapless
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Supplementary English Glossary by Thomas Lewis Owen Davies (1881)
"soapless, without soap ; unwashed. The offered hand of his new friend . . .
was of a marvellously dingy and soapless aspect. —Lytton, Pelham, ch. xlix. ..."
2. George Eliot's Works by George Eliot (1895)
"[Apropos of some incapable woman's writing, she adds:] There is something more
piteous almost than soapless poverty in this application of feminine ..."
3. George Eliot's Life as Related in Her Letters and Journals by George Eliot (1885)
"There is something more piteous almost than soapless poverty in this application
of feminine incapacity to literature. We spent a very pleasant couple of ..."
4. George Eliot's Life as Related in Her Letters and Journals by George Eliot, John Walter Cross (1885)
"There is something more piteous almost than soapless poverty in this application
of feminine incapacity to literature. We spent a very pleasant couple of ..."
5. Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle (1850)
"... with the horn spitz of his pipe depending from his rather pallid, flabby, and
soapless, but still hearty and honest countenance. ..."
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