Meanings
- not comparableWithout brunch.
Our impatience with the Parisians is symbolized by the dining room here at the Hotel Raphael, where they have footrests under the dining room tables. So we kicked ours over and rushed out brunchless to dig up some dirt . . .
1960, The Hollywood Reporter, volume 160, Los Angeles, Calif., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2, column 22 more examples
Growing up in a largely brunchless society, my family’s Sunday ritual involved topping each bagel half with cream cheese and smoked salmon, or chopped liver, or egg and onion, and arranging them open-faced on big plates so everyone could take what they wanted, with a fish ball on the side.
2022, Laura Goodman, “A schmear campaign”, in The Joy of Snacks […], London: Headline Publishing Group, →ISBNIn 1911 Taft and his friends caused a small scandal at a restaurant in St. Louis when they ordered a round of Bronx cocktails during breakfast—an unseemly hour to be drinking publicly, by the early twentieth century’s brunchless standards.
2024, “No. 27: William Howard Taft: Republican | 1909–1913: Manila Bronx”, in United We Drink: 50 Cocktail Recipes Inspired by the US Presidents, [Nashville, Tenn.]: Harper Celebrate, →ISBN, page 75
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