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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

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)

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