nylonless

nylonless

English

Etymology

From nylon +‎ -less.

Adjective

nylonless (not comparable)

  1. (rare) Without nylon.
    • 1942, Sales Management Inc. (publisher), “We Have A Little Last”, in Sales Management‎[1], volume 51, page 4:
      Dear Santa, bring on your springless spring mattresses, your woolless woolen sweaters, your sugarless mintless peppermint candy canes, but please don't fill our Nylonless stockings with any of the following:
    • 2013, C. Bradford Eastland, "L.A. Journal", Some Stories About Some Guys Doing the Best They Can in the Nowhere City:
      She dropped her eyes and uncrossed her nylonless legs. Some legs don't need nylons.
    • 2014, Anna-Dorothea Ludewig, Axel Stähler, Ulrike Brunotte (editors), Orientalism, Gender, and the Jews, Literary and Artistic Transformations of European National Discourses, page 243:
      In fall 2010, two female students protested in the French capital against the ban on full-body veils with a two-part get-up: wearing a short çarşaf top and niqab to the waist, they were nylonless in hot pants and high.
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