Adjective

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Without war, devoid of war.

* {{quote-book, year=1914, author=Samuel F. B. Morse, title=Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Alas! in this he did not prove himself a true prophet, although it must be conceded that many wars have been averted or shortened by means of the telegraph, and there are some who hope that a warless age is even now being conceived in the womb of time.}}

* {{quote-book, year=1916, author=H. G. Wells, title=What is Coming?, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=It is really quite idle to dream of a warless world in which States are still absolutely free to annoy one another with tariffs, with the blocking and squeezing of trade routes, with the ill-treatment of immigrants and travelling strangers, and between which there is no means of settling boundary disputes.}}

* {{quote-book, year=1921, author=Kenneth Morris, title=The Crest-Wave of Evolution, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Well; for nine and twenty years he held that vast empire warless ; even though it included within its boundaries many restless and savage tribes.}}

Adjective

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Lacking bars

* {{quote-book, year=1883, author=Richard Francis Burton and Verney Lovett Cameron, title=To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=The French have re-occupied a fort twenty miles up the pretty barless river, the outlet of a great lagoon; it was abandoned during the Prusso-Gallic war. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=Enos Herbert Glynne Roberts, title=The Story of the "9th King's" in France, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Such an ardour possessed the men for the fight that in some it reached the pitch of fear lest they should arrive too late upon the battlefield and receive only a barless medal. }}

Lacking a bar

* {{quote-news, year=2000, date=July 14, author=Done Rose, title=The Grub Game, work=Chicago Reader citation

, passage=The regulars were left barless but, like the White Russians of Paris and the Cubans of Miami, they religiously awaited the day they could return. }}