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adjective

Maigre adj. Belonging to a fast day or fast; as, a maigre day.

Maigre food (R. C. Ch.), food allowed to be eaten on fast days.

noun

Meagre n. (Written also maigre) (Zool.) A large European sciaenoid fish (Sciaena umbra or Sciaena aquila), having white bloodless flesh. It is valued as a food fish.

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"Maigre" Quotes from Famous Books

... a ball. To-day, when Baldi was describing the excesses which usually take place during the last few hours of the Carnival, he said, "the man who has but half a shirt will pawn it to-night to buy a good supper and an opera-ticket: to-morrow for fish and soup-maigre—fasting and repentance!" ...

— The Diary of an Ennuyee • Anna Brownell Jameson

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... (Triglia cuculus) and the maigre (Sciaena aquila) utter sounds when taken out of the water (YARRELL, vol. i. p. 44, 107); and herrings when the net has just been drawn have been observed to do the same. This effect has been attributed to the escape of air from the air bladder, ...

— Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon • J. Emerson Tennent

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... Proculus Macerinus 3d, of whom the Chronicle of Haolander speaks. From Macerinus to Mazarin the proximity was tempting. Macerinus, a diminutive, means leanish, poorish, out of case. Oh! reverend father! Mazarini may now be carried to the augmentative Maigre, thin as Lazarus. Look!" and he showed ...

— Ten Years Later - Chapters 1-104 • Alexandre Dumas, Pere

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... DAYS. Those in which no flesh-meat is issued to the messes. It is obvious that they are a remnant of the maigre days of the Roman Catholics, who deem it a mortal sin to eat flesh on certain days. Stock-fish used to be served out, till it was found to promote scurvy. The term is derived from a religious sect in ...

— The Sailor's Word-Book • William Henry Smyth

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