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Etymology edit

white +‎ -less

Adjective edit

whiteless (not comparable)

  1. Lacking white; (of the eyes) lacking (visible) whites.
    • 1897, Emerson Hough, The Cowboy (originally published as The Story of the Cowboy), New York: The Brampton Society, 1908, Chapter 13, p. 262,[]
      [] The whiteless blue of heaven
      Comes down to meet the greenless gray of earth—
      And compasses her dream.
    • 1933, Robert Byron, First Russia, Then Tibet, Part I, Chapter 7, Early Russian Painting,[1]
      In those grave, whiteless eyes and sad small mouth live the eternal sorrows and joys and the whole destiny of man.
    • 1976, Frank Herbert, Children of Dune[2]:
      The black beard which fanned out across the neck of his stillsuit hood like a wild delta contained flecks of grey, but his eyes carried that same whiteless intensity they’d presented to her on their first encounter in the desert.

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