1564 P. Moore i. ii. 3 A mete diet may sone bee serched out.
1879 9 601 The patient..was ordered meat-diet.
1974 M. Fido 115/2 A baby lion..satisfactorily weaned itself to a meat diet.
1999 M. Gold in G. Tansey & J. D'Silva xvi. 180 The diet forced on some of the estimated one billion vegetarians worldwide by poverty is as unhealthy as the junk-food meat diet of the poorer members of developed nations.