Meanings
- alternativenot comparableAlternative form of whipped creamless.
“Having fun?” Tim asked gently. “Yes,” she answered hollowly, “but I am tired.” “Not too tired for Betty’s whipped cream-less gingerbread, are you?” he asked, adding in a whisper, “She made it for you to celebrate.”
1966, Shirley Sargent, chapter IX, in Ranger in Skirts, Nashville, Tenn.; New York, N.Y.: Abingdon Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1272 more examples
To celebrate Vienna, the San Francisco Opera’s press office served chocolate cake (but without Schlagobers — whipped cream) before last Sunday’s performance of Richard Strauss’ Der Rosenkavalier. […] Unintentionally, the whipped cream-less cake became symbolic of San Francisco Opera’s 1985 production of Der Rosenkavalier, Strauss’ answer to [Wolfgang Amadeus] Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro.
1985 December 1, Dimitri Drobatschewsky, “Stars fail to shine in ‘Der Rosenkavalier’”, in The Arizona Republic, 96th year, number 199, Phoenix, Ariz., →ISSN, →OCLC, page F3, column 2Finding whipped cream on her gelatine dessert, Mrs. [Catherine] Hammond rejected the dish. Ever the perfect servitor, [Julius H.] Schiffman hastened to replace it. As he was en route back to the fifth floor with a whipped cream-less order, Mrs. Hammond telephoned room service for a glass of milk and demanded it when Schiffman entered.
1956 October 12, “Waiter Sues Socialite”, in San Francisco Examiner, final edition, San Francisco, Calif., →ISSN, →OCLC, section I, page 24, column 6
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