flagonless
English
Etymology
flagon + -less
Adjective
flagonless (comparative more flagonless, superlative most flagonless)
- Without a flagon or, by extension, anything alcoholic to drink.
- 1888, Richard Dowling, Ignorant Essays, page 149:
- Wifeless, friendless, flagonless, alone, Not quite bookless, though, unless I choose ; Left with naught to do, except to groan, Not a soul to woo, except the Muse.
- 1977, Poetry Wales: - Volume 13, Issue 3, page 38:
- The cellar flagonless. The cupboard was only crusts.
- 1980, Caryl Brahms, Stroganov in Company: Collected Stories, page 271:
- She was looking longingly out of the window where Pedro the Penniless had joined Ignatius and his guitar at the flagonless table.