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Gone were the shin-nicking wooden frames, and the early sloshings, as water beds went waveless and mainstream, encased in soft-edged mattress forms that looked just like their coil-filled cousins.

From New York Times • Dec. 6, 2018

Yes, soft lighting, copious usage of wood and stone, and one of the most spectacular waveless indoor swimming pools you’ll ever see help to set a mood.

From Forbes • Jun. 18, 2014

On a starry night, aloft on a waveless ocean, the ship is seen steaming serenely toward New York City at 22 knots.

From Time Magazine Archive

The whole sea was a waveless, blue looking-glass, streaked with bands of white, and flecked with sailing cloud-shadows from the skies above.

From The Pearl of Orr's Island A Story of the Coast of Maine by Stowe, Harriet Beecher

Yet no breath of rising wind or gathering tempest stirred the black waveless plain which stretched for so many a mile seaward and lay illimitable between the murky shores.

From Nevermore by Bolderwood, Rolf