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▪ I. maigre, n.|ˈmeɪgə(r)|
Also 9 meagre.
[a. F. maigre.]
A large fish, Sciæna aquila, common in the Mediterranean.
The megyr of Promp. Parv. is prob. unconnected.
1835Jenyns Man. Brit. Vert. Anim. 352 Sciæna Aquila Cuv. (Maigre). 1836Yarrell Brit. Fishes I. 90 The Maigre. Ibid. 92 Three fishermen once took twenty Maigres by a single sweep of their net. 1880Günther Fishes 430 Sciæna aquila..not rarely reaches the British coasts, where it is known as ‘Meagre’. 1883Fisheries Exhib. Catal. (ed. 4) 118 Skeleton of Maigre or Royal Fish.
▪ II. ‖ maigre, a.|mɛgr, ˈmeɪgə(r)|
[F. maigre, lit. lean: see meagre a.]
1. Of articles of diet, esp. soup: Not containing flesh or the juices of flesh; proper for ‘maigre’ days.
1787P. Beckford Lett. fr. Italy (1805) I. 365 A common maigre dish in this country. 1806H. Hunter Culina (ed. 3) 58 For want of this precaution, the soup has a maigre taste. Ibid. 122 In this receipt for a maigre soup, much is left to the taste of the Cook. 1831Scott Quentin D. Introd. 57 The soup, although bearing the term maigre,..was most delicately flavoured.
2. Applied to those days on which, in the Roman Church, abstinence from flesh is enjoined.
1683Robinson in Ray's Corr. (1848) 132 Most of the inhabitants here, do generally eat it in Lent, and upon maigre days. 1768Pennant Zool. I. 68 The Romish church permits the use of it [otter] on maigre-days. 1879R. Lubbock Fauna of Norfolk 77 Sustenance upon maigre days.
†3. to eat, keep, live maigre: to live on ‘maigre’ diet. Obs.
1739H. Walpole Corr. (1820) I. 18 A greater penance than eating maigre. 1764― Lett., to G. Montagu 18 June (1846) IV. 429, I must keep maigre. 1764Smollett France & Italy xxii. (1766) 340 A good catholic, who lives maigre one half of the year. 1778H. More Let. in W. Roberts Mem. (1834) I. 136 At last he [the doctor] consented on condition that I should..live maigre and drink no wine.
▪ III. maigre
obs. form of meagre. |