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Definition of Beefless
1. being without beef [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Beefless
Literary usage of Beefless
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fables de La Fontaine by Jean de La Fontaine (1842)
"Arrived on shore, his good intents Were dwindled to the smoke which rose An
offering merely for the nose, From half a dozen beefless bones. ..."
2. The American Year Book: A Record of Events and Progress by Francis Graham Wickware, (, Albert Bushnell Hart, (, Simon Newton Dexter North, William M. Schuyler (1918)
"... and beefless days, the Food Administration has brought all bakeries in the
United States, including those of hotels, restaurants and clubs but excluding ..."
3. The Literary Digest History of the World War: Compiled from Original and (1919)
"One beefless day a week (not including the traditional piscatorial Friday), the
issuance of "war-bread" to patrons as well as to employees, and the removal ..."
4. Transactions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1918)
"... and beefless days seem to be involved, but that of better dietetics as well.
2 We must save labor. Extensive activities employing labor, perhaps whole ..."
5. The Various Writings of Cornelius Mathews by Cornelius Mathews (1863)
"... and smells—are of any worth, the denizens lead a retired life, with a lenten
diet, ignorant of what the great world beyond may think of beefless dinners ..."
6. Life with the Forty-ninth Massachusetts Volunteers by Henry T. Johns (1864)
"The morning of the 21st found, us early in line, and, beefless, we hastily
breakfasted, and continued our march. We had marched but à few miles, ..."
7. Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature of the United Kingdom by Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) (1882)
"His dietary is of course limited in these beefless lands; he prefers antelope to
mutton, because he hopes to sell the latter, or to barter it for corn in ..."
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