meatless

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From Middle English meteles, from Old English metelēas (foodless), equivalent to meat +‎ -less.

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meatless (not comparable)

  1. Without meat.
    • 1916, The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art:
      A meatless day or a beerless or tealess day does not suggest moderation so much as immoderation.
    • 1942, Winston S. Churchill, The Hinge of Fate, vol. 4 of The Second World War (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1950), p. 300. [Memo from Prime Minister Churchill to General Ismay dated April 3, 1942]
      Are we to understand from paragraph 1 (c) that [the residents of Malta] are entirely meatless? or have they cattle they can kill, and if so how many?

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