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English
Etymology
From bash + -less.
Adjective
bashless (comparative more bashless, superlative most bashless)
- (obsolete) shameless
a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the folio)”, in [Fulke Greville; Matthew Gwinne; John Florio], editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC:Come on Maister schoole-maister, be not so bashlesse, we say, that the fairest are ever the gentlest
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