meatless

adj

Etymology: From Middle English meteles, from Old English metelēas (“foodless”), equivalent to meat + -less.

1. Without meat.

   “A meatless day or a beerless or tealess day does not suggest moderation so much as immoderation.”

   “Are we to understand from paragraph 1 (c) that [the residents of Malta] are entirely meatless? or have they cattle they can kill, and if so how many?”