"dinnerless" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From dinner + -less.",
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          "ref": "1675, Samuel Clarke, “The Life and Death of Artaxerxes Mnemon”, in The Lives & Deaths of Most of Those Eminent Persons Who by Their Virtue and Valour Obtained the Sirnames of Magni, London: W.B, page 32",
          "text": "But the King coming with the main of his Army to the relief of Tisaphernes, fell upon the Grecians Camp, and rifled it, yet when they returned from the pursuit, they recovered it, and beat the King out again, and lodged Supperless in it that night, as well as Dinnerless the day before.",
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          "text": "So reduced were their finances, and exhausted their credit, that the acting managers, as they were called, were once obliged to repair to the theatre on the evening of a play, dinnerless.",
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        "Without dinner."
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