saltless
AmericanEtymology
Origin of saltless
Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; see origin at salt 1, -less
Example Sentences
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She advises against ciabatta, because it’s too airy, and instead recommends dense, saltless bread: “In other words, the bread of Tuscany and Umbria.”
From Washington Post ● Aug. 18, 2022
The pretzel bread performed much the same: Its saltless hide was not ideal but proved its worth once slathered with the now-you-see-it, now-you-don’t pimento cheese.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 20, 2018
Later, a cup of warm milk is described as tasting “of bone and blood, of warm flesh, or hair, saltless as chalk yet alive as a growing embryo.”
From Slate ● Nov. 19, 2015
"Others will find reading it about as exciting as eating the saltless bean paste its characters subsist on."
From The Guardian ● Mar. 8, 2013
The Boston accent is very crisp and in places suggestive of the best English but the vowels are so curiously flattened that the speech has a saltless effect.
From Etiquette by Post, Emily
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