Meanings
- not comparableWithout marmalade.
And if anyone was impulsive enough to finish his ration too quickly, then he ate butterless, marmaladeless breakfasts until the next ration period came round.
1958 June, Sarel Eimerl, “Oxford Rations”, in Earle R. MacAusland, editor, Gourmet […], volume XVIII, number 6, New York, N.Y.: Gourmet, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 13, column 12 more examples
Here our tired tin is transferred to a different lorry belonging to the supply column of the particular unit wanting marmalade and other foods, such as we saw on the bill of fare. […] Here the lorry driver is met by a guide, from the marmaladeless battalion, who shows the way, probably by night, and without the assistance of lights, so that the Germans may get no inkling of what is going on.
1940, T. S. Riddell-Webster, “Feeding the British Army”, in Walter Hutchinson, editor, Hutchinson’s Pictorial History of the War, London: Hutchinson & Co., →OCLC, page 91When you’ve eaten all your Seville orange marmalade and you’re looking into a marmaladeless abyss, this mixture of grapefruit, sweet oranges and lemons is the one to make.
2016, Theresa Storey, “Three-fruit marmalade”, in Fruit on the Table: Seasonal Recipes from the Green Apron Kitchen, Dublin: The O’Brien Press, →ISBN, page 25
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