shredless

English

Etymology

shred +‎ -less

Adjective

shredless (not comparable)

Having no shreds; without a shred.
- 1816, Lord Byron, “Canto III”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. Canto the Third, London: Printed for John Murray, […], OCLC 1015450009, stanza XLVII:
  There was a day when they were young and proud, / Banners on high, and battles pass'd below; / But they who fought are in a bloody shroud, / And those which waved are shredless dust ere now.

References

shredless in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

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