Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Lacking wine; not using, producing, or containing wine; unaccompanied by wine: as, a wineless meal.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective destitute of wine.

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  • adjective Without wine.

Etymologies

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wine +‎ -less

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Examples

  • Then she peered into a blurry bronze hand mirror, trying to apply wineless rouge and lupinseed powder by the dim light of a small oil lamp.

    Two For The Lions Davis, Lindsey 1998

  • But there was not so sober a party in the kingdom as that which was anxiously gathered together over a wineless meal in the chateau of Brest.

    Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver Theodore Canot

  • And at dinner, all wineless and proper, a dress-suited guest he may be;

    Memories and Anecdotes Sanborn, Kate, 1839-1917 1915

  • Soupless and wineless and coffeeless, untimely and wholly indecent—

    Atlantic City 1912

  • So I bought a quart of it, corked it up very tight, put it in my sack, and held it in store against the wineless places on the flanks of the hill called Terrible, where there are no soldiers, and where Swiss is the current language.

    The Path to Rome Hilaire Belloc 1911

  • Have we not already the wordless dance, the wineless banquet, and all that strange unchristian conception of luxury without laughter?

    Eugenics and Other Evils 1905

  • We may apply an alien term, and then deny of that term one of its proper attributes; as if we were to call the shield, not 'the cup of Ares,' but 'the wineless cup.'

    Poetics. English 384 BC-322 BC Aristotle 1880

  • And at dinner, all wineless and proper, a dress-suited guest he may be;

    Memories and Anecdotes Kate Sanborn 1878

  • The great Hilaire Belloc saw his sense of humor atrophy during a wineless Lent; I find my far less witty version similarly afffected without the hops or prospect thereof.

    Video Meliora, proboque; Deteriora sequor 2009

  • Yes, 538 I looked at when you recommended it before, &, thankya myte, I'll go there again, as I am having another wineless night as a result of antibiotics for an accursed bladder infection.

    Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009

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