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English
Etymology
From Middle English meteles, from Old English metelēas (“foodless”), equivalent to meat + -less.
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meatless (not comparable)
- 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.
- Are we to understand from paragraph 1 (c) that are entirely meatless? or have they cattle they can kill, and if so how many?
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