oliveless en · ADJ
Etymology
From olive + -less.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Without olives.
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:She sipped at an oliveless martini.