laceless

== English == === Etymology === From lace + -less. === Adjective === laceless (not comparable) (of shoes, basketballs, etc.) Without laces. 1856: Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part III Chapter XI, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling He suffered, poor man, at seeing her so badly dressed, with laceless boots, and the arm-holes of her pinafore torn down to the hips; for the charwoman took no care of her.