melonless en · ADJ
Etymology
From melon + -less.
Meanings
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(not-comparable, rare) Without melons.
August court is known as “watermelon court,” the reason being much in evidence all around the public square. The color scheme is red, white, and green, with black for variation. In 1901—the first time in many years—August court was melonless, owing to lateness of the crop.
1912, John W[alter] Wayland, “Farms and Farmers”, in A History of Rockingham County, Virginia, Dayton, Va.: Ruebush-Elkins Company, →OCLC, part II (Topical), page 369:These orbital cultural pressures are what you would expect – this is a relatively low-self-esteem, ingredient-thin bit of Europe, hemmed in by other cultures with access to serious sunlight: it is melonless, basilless, oliveless.
2010, Simon Winder, “I’ll have some green sauce with that”, in Germania: A Personal History of Germans Ancient and Modern, London: Picador, →ISBN, chapter 1, page 33:[A]nyone who has ever experienced a Georgia watermelon—knows that it is a luxury par excellence! It is a luxury and a necessity at one and the same time; for, show us the man or woman, boy or girl—regardless of color—who, having acquired the Georgia melon habit in past “melon-times,” would not elect almost any other sacrifice in preference to a melonless season!
1918 February 20, “Watermelons, by All Means!”, in Clark Howell, editor, The Atlanta Constitution, volume L, number 250, Atlanta, Ga., →OCLC, page 8, column 2: