a. rare. [f. COUCH sb.1 + -LESS.] ‘Having no couch or bed’ (Hyde Clarke, 1855).
1820. D. Webster, Disc. Plymouth, 22 Dec. (1821), 12. We see, what a painter of our own has also represented by his pencil, chilled and shivering childhood, houseless, but for a mother’s arms, couchless, but for a mother’s breast, till our own blood almost freezes.
