a. [f. TOWN sb. + -LESS.] Having no town or towns; devoid of towns.
a. 1400–50. Alexander, 2288. How tidis it þe [þ]at tounles þi toname is callid?
1601. Holland, Pliny, IV. xii. I. 80. Townlesse, and therfore obscure and of no reckoning.
1839. Weekly Standard (Raleigh, NC), 20 Feb., 3/1. Securing to the heretofore townless citizens of old Rip, a large floating City of indefinite magnitude.
1846. Ford, Gatherings fr. Spain, 15. This space … appears one townless level.
1884. Athenæum, 1 March, 273/2. The inhabitants of these townless steppes live in carts, each cart containing a family.
