a. [f. WAIST + -LESS.] Having no waist; having the appearance of being without a waist.
1500–20. Dunbar, Poems, xxvi. 97. Full mony a waistless wallydrag With wamiss vnweildable, did furth wag, In creische that did incress.
1796. Sporting Mag., VIII. 185. To conform to fashion’s sway, Betsey is become waistless.
1859. [Helen Lowe], Unprotected Females in Norway, 189. The waistless damsel standing high up behind with a long pole in a Damocles position over his head.
1870. Miss Broughton, Red as Rose, I. 122. Their little, bustless, waistless, hipless figures.
1910. Suffling, Eng. Ch. Brasses, 128. It is a life size figure, habited in a long flowing gown, waistless and without ornament of any kind.
