Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Wanting grapes; made without grapes, as factitious wine: as, “grapeless wines,”
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Wanting grapes or the flavor of grapes.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Without
grapes .
Etymologies
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grape + -less
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Examples
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She had heard so much of the canting philosophy of the grapeless fox.
Sister Carrie 2004
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She had heard so much of the canting philosophy of the grapeless fox.
Sister Carrie: a Novel Theodore Dreiser 1908
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She had heard so much of the canting philosophy of the grapeless fox.
Sister Carrie 1900
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She had heard so much of the canting philosophy of the grapeless fox.
Sister Carrie 1900
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Though Paul plant and Apollos water, the field of reform will grow nothing but the figless thistle and the grapeless thorn.
The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909 Ambrose Bierce 1878
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