Lenten fare

1. Literally, food that does not contain meat and may therefore be served during the Christian observance of Lent. Mom is serving our usual Lenten fare of battered cod and boiled potatoes again tonight.

2. By extension, meager meals or rations, especially those that contain no meat. The stranded sailor survived for nearly three months on a Lenten fare of wild vegetables and fish caught with a rudimentary net.

Lenten fare

meagre rations that do not include meat.

Lenten fare is literally food appropriate to Lent , the Christian season of fasting between Ash Wednesday and Easter Saturday in commemoration of Jesus's forty days of fasting in the wilderness.

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References in periodicals archive

Prawns are also popular Lenten fare along with cream dory, bangus and tilapia.

Chefs' big secret: Where to buy seafood

Finally, as all that salty Lenten fare reminds us, Nashe is full of material, stuffed with stuff.

Stephen Guy-Bray, Joan Pong Linton, and Steve Mentz, eds. The Age of Thomas Nashe: Text, Bodies and Trespasses of Authorship in Early Modern England

Parliament, for one, where of late there has been an unseemly muddle about meatballs; to wit, opposition MPs who arrived at the members' dining room to find that the Government group had pre-ordered all the kyufteta, and all that was left was Lenten fare. The opposition did not look on this as an opportunity to honour the dietary prescriptions of the Orthodox Christian Church to abstain from meat in Advent.

By all that's holy

Turner says that borage, with leeks and onions, was traditional Lenten fare for the poor people of Northumberland.

Environment: Lasting legacy of Turner

In Greece, tarama, a preserved roe, was the Lenten fare of the poor.

But Lent is still very much with us in the heritage of dishes once solely Lenten fare but now year-round classics of regional cuisines.n

Lenten Delights - Now year-round classics, many dishes were once solely lenten fare

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释义	Lenten fare Lenten fare 1. Literally, food that does not contain meat and may therefore be served during the Christian observance of Lent. Mom is serving our usual Lenten fare of battered cod and boiled potatoes again tonight. 2. By extension, meager meals or rations, especially those that contain no meat. The stranded sailor survived for nearly three months on a Lenten fare of wild vegetables and fish caught with a rudimentary net. See also: fare Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. Lenten fare meagre rations that do not include meat. Lenten fare is literally food appropriate to Lent , the Christian season of fasting between Ash Wednesday and Easter Saturday in commemoration of Jesus's forty days of fasting in the wilderness. See also: fare Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary See also: literally denial a non-denial denial tight money pay in someone's own coin, to eagle-eyed caveat caveat emptor (the) survival of the fittest beat the living daylights out of someone References in periodicals archive Prawns are also popular Lenten fare along with cream dory, bangus and tilapia. Chefs' big secret: Where to buy seafood Finally, as all that salty Lenten fare reminds us, Nashe is full of material, stuffed with stuff. Stephen Guy-Bray, Joan Pong Linton, and Steve Mentz, eds. The Age of Thomas Nashe: Text, Bodies and Trespasses of Authorship in Early Modern England Parliament, for one, where of late there has been an unseemly muddle about meatballs; to wit, opposition MPs who arrived at the members' dining room to find that the Government group had pre-ordered all the kyufteta, and all that was left was Lenten fare. The opposition did not look on this as an opportunity to honour the dietary prescriptions of the Orthodox Christian Church to abstain from meat in Advent. By all that's holy Turner says that borage, with leeks and onions, was traditional Lenten fare for the poor people of Northumberland. Environment: Lasting legacy of Turner In Greece, tarama, a preserved roe, was the Lenten fare of the poor. But Lent is still very much with us in the heritage of dishes once solely Lenten fare but now year-round classics of regional cuisines.n Lenten Delights - Now year-round classics, many dishes were once solely lenten fare
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