[f. FOLD sb.2 + -LESS.] Having no fold or pen.

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1822.  Milman, Martyr of Antioch, 38.

                            Who shall lead
The foldless sheep to life’s eternal pastures
When their good shepherd’s gone?

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1895.  W. Watson, Purple East, vi.

        The dead rot by the wayside; the unblest
Who live, in caves and desert mountains lurk
Trembling, His foldless flock, shorn of their fleece.

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