1832. [Marianne N. Croker] (‘T. Crofton Croker’), Adv. Barney Mahoney (ed. 2), v. 87. A pair of tipless gloves, whose native whiteness could not long resist, though long it had borne, the attacks of the same enemy, gave to view ten crescents of a sombre hue, terminating the honourable fingers they but partially concealed.
1904. E. F. Benson, Challoners, vi. A bagatelle board with torn cloth and tipless cues.
