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It has long, loose, open sleeves, a gathered yolk at the neck, and drops to the knees like the skin of a ribless umbrella.

From Time Magazine Archive

The high ribless domes of the Panachrantos, for instance, circular in plan within and without, with square-headed windows, plain stone sill, and flat cornice in moulded plaster, may be regarded as typical Turkish drum-domes.

From Byzantine Churches in Constantinople Their History and Architecture by Van Millingen, Alexander

Many had well-developed ribs, indicating a condition of respiration much in advance of that in the ribless batrachians.

From The Chain of Life in Geological Time A Sketch of the Origin and Succession of Animals and Plants by Dawson, Sir J. William

That dyspepsia-cure man, who also immortalized himself by inventing the ribless umbrella, was very superstitious.

From The Siege of the Seven Suitors by Nicholson, Meredith

Fruit globular; the carpels not separating spontaneously, ribless, thickly clothed with hooked prickles, each with 5 oil-tubes.—Perennial rather tall glabrous herbs, with few palmately-lobed or parted leaves, those from the root long-petioled.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa