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Maigre

noun
1.
Large European marine food fish.  Synonyms: maiger, Sciaena aquila.






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"Maigre" Quotes from Famous Books



... find; cards and eating are so universal, that they absorb all variation of pleasures. The operas, indeed, are much frequented three times a week; but to me they would be a greater penance than eating maigre: their music resembles a gooseberry tart as much as it does harmony. We have not yet been at the Italian playhouse; scarce any one goes there. Their best amusement, and which in some parts, beats ours, is the comedy three or four ...
— The Letters of Horace Walpole, Volume 1 • Horace Walpole

... gave up the point, on the promise of some excellent and remarkably well-flavored trout from the stream that flowed through the village—a promise that was literally fulfilled. At the post-house on the Brenner, where we stopped on Saturday evening, we were absolutely refused any thing but soup-maigre and fish; the postmaster telling us that the priest had positively forbidden meat to be given to travellers. Think of that!—that we who had eaten wild-boar and pheasants on Good Friday, at Rome, under the very nostrils of the Pope himself ...
— Letters of a Traveller - Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America • William Cullen Bryant

... "wax candles by the dozen were lighted, and princely cheer; fifteen soups maigre, with marvellous twangs of venison, grouse, and hare in them, and twenty different fishes (being Friday), cooked with wondrous art, and each he between two buxom lasses, and each lass between two lads with a cowl; all but me: and ...
— The Cloister and the Hearth • Charles Reade



Words linked to "Maigre" :   genus Sciaena, sciaenid, Sciaena, sciaenid fish



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