a. [f. TURF sb.1 + -LESS.] Devoid of turf, bare.
a. 1743. Savage, Public Spirit, 44. Turfless, leafless, and uncultur’d plains.
1816. Byron, Pr. of Chillon, vii. The flat and turfless earth above The being we so much did love.
1897. Blackw. Mag., March, 338. The graveyard with its turfless mounds of red earth.
