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The women, were in hoopless dresses, and held shawls over their heads in place of bonnets.

From Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life by Knox, Thomas Wallace

"Nothing whatever to do with the Army," he snapped, and a Prussian-blue opponent was smacked off into an arid and hoopless waste.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, July 11, 1917 by Various

There were to them even more heathenish indications in her hoopless straight skirts: the good little creatures zealously cut and trimmed a dress for her from the very last patterns.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science October, 1877. Vol XX - No. 118 by Various

Objectively, she was a slim, hoopless little woman, with a tendency to be always at the street-door when we opened it.

From Venetian Life by Howells, William Dean

She looked doubtfully at him, at the low shanty, the yard that was littered with cord-wood, moldy planks, a hoopless wash-tub.

From Main Street by Lewis, Sinclair