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passportless

  • a word derived from passport.
    passport
    noun
    an official document issued by the government of a country to one of its citizens and, varying from country to country, authorizing travel to foreign countries and authenticating the bearer's identity, citizenship, right to protection while abroad, and right to reenter their native country.

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Last week passportless Moatsie said she was Clippering home.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mauritania, for example, is practically a movable country, whose Moorish nomads wander after water in passportless circles through neighboring Mali and Algeria.

From Time Magazine Archive

Ahead was the Hungarian border, where watchtowers still stand and electrified wire keeps passportless citizens from leaving.

From Time Magazine Archive

He had to ask Maslennikoff two things: about Maslova's removal to the prison hospital, and about the 130 passportless men innocently imprisoned.

From Resurrection by Louise Shanks Maude

Looking at the map, it seemed to me that, in spite of being passportless, I might be able somehow to make my way up through Morvern and Arisaig to the latitude of Skye.

From Mr. Standfast by John Buchan