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English
Etymology
From shadow + -less.
Adjective
shadowless (comparative more shadowless, superlative most shadowless)
- Lacking a shadow.
1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXXVIII, in Francesca Carrara. , volume III, London: Richard Bentley, , (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 313:There is something in the shadowless sky and the unbroken moonshine which mocks us with repose. We have no part in it; our own unrest has no sympathy with the blue and spiritual horizon, whose hope is not with this life.
1947 September and October, “First Southern Railway Post-War Vessel”, in Railway Magazine, page 294:[…] fluorescent lighting has been adopted for the upper deck lounges and smokerooms, so giving shadowless lighting.
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