sans

• POS: Noun, Preposition

CIDE DICTIONARY

sans, prep. [F., from L. sine without.].

 Without; deprived or destitute of. Rarely used as an English word.  Chaucer.  [1913 Webster]
"Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

sans, prep. archaic or joc. without.

Etymology

ME f. OF san(z), sen(s) ult. f. L sine, infl. by L absentia in the absence of

ROGET THESAURUS

sans

Absence

N absence, inexistence, nonresidence, absenteeism, nonattendance, alibi, emptiness, void, vacuum, vacuity, vacancy, tabula rasa, exemption, hiatus, lipotype, truant, absentee, nobody, nobody present, nobody on earth, not a soul, ame qui vive, absent, not present, away, nonresident, gone, from home, missing, lost, wanting, omitted, nowhere to be found, inexistence, empty, void, vacant, vacuous, untenanted, unoccupied, uninhabited, tenantless, barren, sterile, desert, deserted, devoid, uninhabitable, without, minus, nowhere, elsewhere, neither here nor there, in default of, sans, behind one's back, the bird has flown, non est inventus, absence makes the heart grow fonder, absent in body but present in spirit, absento nemo ne nocuisse velit, Achilles absent was Achilles still, aux absents les os, briller par son absence, conspicuous by his absence, in the hope to meet shortly again and make our abs.