a. [f. LADY sb. + -LESS.] Having no lady; unaccompanied by a lady.
1470–85. Malory, Arthur, VIII. xxvi. Sythen I am lady les I wil wyn thy lady.
1858. Morris, K. Arthur’s Tomb, 37. Perchance, indeed, quite ladyless were best.
1888. Bryce, Amer. Commw., III. VI. cv. 518. At hotels their [women’s] sitting-room is … sometimes the only available public room, ladyless guests being driven to the bar or the hall.
