backless
Having no back, especially where one would be expected, as with a chair or a dress.
Adjective
- Having no back, especially where one would be expected, as with a chair or a dress.
- a backless surgical gown
- The apartment was almost dismantled; chairs lay backless about the floor amid china shepherdesses and toreadors; pictures were thrown over the sofa, […] - 1885, George Moore, A Mummer's Wife:
- Having the back uncovered, showing the skin.
Origin
Etymology tree English back Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der. Proto-Germanic *leusaną Proto-Germanic *lausaz Proto-Germanic *-lausaz Proto-West Germanic *-laus Old English -lēas Middle English -les English -less English backless From back + -less.