Meanings
- alternativenot comparableAlternative form of ice-creamless.
“I want ice cream now, Momm-ee.” Marianne jumped off Joan’s lap and planted herself in front of her mother. “[…] No, Marianne. There isn’t any. We are an ice creamless house.”
2000, Rona Jaffe, chapter 23, in The Road Taken: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Dutton, →ISBN, page 1732 more examples
“Ice creamless Thursday” was proclaimed here today as a result of a meeting of ice cream and candy manufacturers, at which special measures for conservation of sugar were urged by Ralph Merritt, State food administrator.
1917 November 2, “‘Ice creamless Thursday’”, in The Los Angeles Times, 5 o’clock edition, XXXVIth year, Los Angeles, Calif.: Times-Mirror Company, published 3 November 1917, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4, column 2‘Ain’t got no Ben and Jerry’s left, told you. Could do you a Carte D’Or?’ / ‘What flavour?’ Annie’s voice wavered. / He peered into his freezer. ‘Vanilla?’ / She bit her lip hard to keep from crying in the middle of the shop. On her way out – ice creamless, because she still had some pride – she caught sight of herself in the security monitor.
2017, Eva Woods [pseudonym; Claire McGowan], “Day Sixty-Two: Shop local”, in How to Be Happy […], London: Sphere, →ISBN, page 277
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