wineless
- a word derived from wine.
Example Sentences
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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
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.
From Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver by Mayer, Brantz
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 Stevenson, Burton Egbert
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 Butcher, S. H. (Samuel Henry)
