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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
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 Sir J. William Dawson
These are ribless hemispherical domes of the type shown in Fig.
From Byzantine Churches in Constantinople Their History and Architecture by Alexander Van Millingen
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 Asa Gray
That dyspepsia-cure man, who also immortalized himself by inventing the ribless umbrella, was very superstitious.
From The Siege of the Seven Suitors by Meredith Nicholson
