cushionless
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a word derived from
cushion.
cushionnouna soft bag of cloth, leather, or rubber, filled with feathers, air, foam rubber, etc., on which to sit, kneel, or lie.
Example Sentences
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There’s the cushionless couch, the graffiti canvas, the keeper and, unfortunately, the toilet.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2021
In the blurred image there is an old, cushionless couch propped against shrub trees and a couple weathered tents.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 24, 2020
Another chair, straight-backed, cushionless, waited beside a dark round table with a dark book on it.
From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt
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He is seated in an old high-backed, cushionless arm-chair, but an easy one, nevertheless, to him, who from dawn till sunset, has been engaged in ploughing, thrashing, ditching, or mowing.
From Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce by E. R. Billings
He inserted his dime in the conductor's little resonant-belled cash receiver, and then settled back on the uncomfortable, bumping, cushionless seat.
From The Adventures of Jimmie Dale by Frank L. (Frank Lucius) Packard