a. Without butter.
1828. Manchester Times, 26 Dec., 6/4. He was sitting at his breakfast of butterless bread and sugarless coffee.
1859. Mrs. Gaskell, Round the Sofa, I. 229. Sally had had her butterless tea.
1860. H. Marryat, Resid. Jutland, I. i. 13. The milk-woman is no more to be found, or you breakfast butterless.
1883. Harper’s Mag., Feb., 442/1. She hated her breakfast of butterless rye bread and black coffee.
