Made neither of flesh-meat nor with the gravy of flesh-meat: applied to the dishes used by Roman Catholics during Lent and on the days on which abstinence from flesh-meat is enjoined.

Of or pertaining to a fast or fast-day.

noun. An acanthopterygian fish of the genus Sciæna, specifically S. aquila, a large and very powerful fish common in the Mediterranean and occasionally taken on the British coasts.

adjective. Belonging to a fast day or fast.

adjective. food allowed to be eaten on fast days.

adjective. Made without meat (and thus permitted to be eaten on a fast day).

adjective. Belonging to a fast day or fast.

noun. A kind of fish; the meagre.

noun. large European marine food fish

"The soup served was by courtesy called _soupe maigre, _ but it was in fact _soupe maigre_ diluted by many homoeopathic myriads, and the Brother showed much curiosity as to my opinion of its taste -- a curiosity which I could not satisfy without hurting his professional pride."

maigre day  

sciaenid  sciaenid fish  

Reine  bourgeoisie  casada  conquista  danseuse