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wineless

  • a word derived from wine.
    wine
    noun
    the fermented juice of grapes, made in many varieties, such as red, white, sweet, dry, still, and sparkling, for use as a beverage, in cooking, in religious rites, etc., and usually having an alcoholic content of 14 percent or less.

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The future king was treated to a wineless lunch of cold cuts, sourdough bread, California cheeses, fruits and nuts served with borrowed silverware.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2022

Evelyn Waugh complained about “lunch in wineless canteens.”

From New York Times ● Nov. 26, 2018

Libations to the Elder Gods, such as the Fates and Eumenides, had to be "wineless."

From Alcestis by Gilbert Murray

These glasses we turn down to-day Here at the parting of the way— We shall be wineless then as they, And shall not mind it more.

From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2 by Burton Egbert Stevenson

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.'

From The Poetics of Aristotle by S. H. (Samuel Henry) Butcher