Backless vs Bankless - What's the difference?
backless | bankless |
having no back, said of things that typically have backs, such as chairs or dresses
* 1885, George Moore, A Mummer's Wife
(of a person) having an uncovered back, having a back that shows skin
Without a bank.
* {{quote-news, year=2009, date=March 28, author=Shaila Dewan, title=A Small Town Loses a Pillar: Its Only Bank, work=New York Times
, passage=Since no other bank had a branch in the county, two other banks had set up tables on East Main Street to entice the newly bankless — one by means of little stuffed ducks, the other with tricolor highlighters emblazoned with the bank logo. }}
As adjectives the difference between backless and bankless
is that backless is having no back, said of things that typically have backs, such as chairs or dresses while bankless is without a bank.backless
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- a backless surgical gown
- The apartment was almost dismantled; chairs lay backless about the floor amid china shepherdesses and toreadors; pictures were thrown over the sofa,...
bankless
English
Adjective
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