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breadless, a.|ˈbrɛdlɪs| [f. bread n.1 + -less.] Without bread; without food.
1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xiv. 160 Beggeres aboute Midsomer bredlees þei soupe. 1733P. Whitehead State Dunces (R) Plump peers, and breadless bards alike are dull. 1847Tait's Mag. XIV. 793 The terrible sufferings of a thousand breadless families. 1864Athenæum 777/1 They who, half-fed, feed the breadless..These are Charity's disciples. Hence ˈbreadlessness.
1860Mrs. W. P. Byrne Undercurr. Overl. II. 93 The crime of poverty then is thus classified; first mendicancy, or the state of ‘breadlessness’; secondly vagrancy, or the state of ‘homelessness’. |