What does dinnerless mean?
Dinnerless means Without dinner..
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Without dinner..
1944, Frederick Niven, The Transplanted, Toronto: Collins, Part 2, Chapter 7, He had been compelled to sit at a table that was not “serviced” by Marion. Had he waited till a place was free at one of her tables he might have gone dinnerless as the doors would soon be closing.
But the King coming with the main of his Army to the relief of Tisaphernes, fell upon the Grecians Camp, and rifled it, yet when they returned from the pursuit, they recovered it, and beat the King out again, and lodged Supperless in it that night, as well as Dinnerless the day before.
So reduced were their finances, and exhausted their credit, that the acting managers, as they were called, were once obliged to repair to the theatre on the evening of a play, dinnerless.
Top-heavy was the ship as a dinnerless student with all Aristotle in his head.
The Parents and Citizens Coronation Lunch became so speechy it ended up dinnerless.
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Dinnerless means Without dinner..
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1944, Frederick Niven, The Transplanted, Toronto: Collins, Part 2, Chapter 7, He had been compelled to sit at a table that was not “serviced” by Marion. Had he waited till a place was free at one of her tables he might have gone dinnerless as the doors would soon be closing.
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