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Having no grain of any cereal grass, used in the form of flour for making bread, cakes, etc., and for other culinary and nutritional purposes.

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  • Certain days of the week were designated as "wheatless" or "meatless" when voluntary demi-fasts were to be observed, the nonobservance of which spelled social ostracism.
  • 1918 - President Hoover calls for "wheatless" & "meatless" days for war effort
  • Wednesday, she is going home with S. to make wheatless cupcakes for A.
  • "Wouldn't it be dreadful if we had loveless days, Daddy, as well as meatless ones and wheatless?"
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