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meatless, a.|ˈmiːtlɪs|
[f. meat n. + -less.]
1. Having no food.
a900Cynewulf Elene 612 Þæm..þe on westenne meðe & meteleas morland trydeð. 1297R. Glouc. (Rolls) 5036 Þet folc was meteles. 1362Langl. P. Pl. A. viii. 130 Meteles and Moneyeles on Maluerne hulles. a1440Sir Eglam. 887 Sche was meteles vj. dayes. 1529More Suppl. Soulys Wks. 302/1 Is not thys a royall feast to leue these beggers meateles, & then send mo to dynner to theim. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1658) 271 Let him be..suffered to stand on the bit meatlesse two or three hours after. 1646,1860[see drinkless].
2. Without meat. spec. Of foods specially prepared or supplied for vegetarians: containing no butcher's meat.
1845Lewes Hist. Philos. II. 24 Growling over his unenvied virtue as a cur growls over his meatless bone. 1909C. H. Senn (title) Meatless fare and lenten cookery. 1909Daily Chron. 2 Nov. 7/3 Even that anomaly—to most people—‘the meatless meal’ is included. 1969Daily Tel. 9 Oct. 16/4 The era of meatless meat, chickenless chicken and cheeseless cheese is already dawning in America. 1972Guardian 8 June 7/5 Some of them [sc. countries] had their meatless days. Ibid. 31 July 2/4 The city's three big department stores..decreed meatless menus.
Hence ˈmeatlessness.
1918Punch 27 Mar. 206/2 If he [sc. our butcher] were removed we should be plunged into absolute meatlessness. |