English

Adjective

barless ‎(not comparable)

1. Lacking bars
   • 1883, Richard Francis Burton and Verney Lovett Cameron, To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II:

     The French have re-occupied a fort twenty miles up the pretty barless river, the outlet of a great lagoon; it was abandoned during the Prusso-Gallic war.

   • 1922, Enos Herbert Glynne Roberts, The Story of the "9th King's" in France:

     Such an ardour possessed the men for the fight that in some it reached the pitch of fear lest they should arrive too late upon the battlefield and receive only a barless medal.

2. Lacking a bar
   • 2000 July 14, Done Rose, “The Grub Game”, in Chicago Reader:

     The regulars were left barless but, like the White Russians of Paris and the Cubans of Miami, they religiously awaited the day they could return.

Anagrams

• braless