| 单词 | friday feast |
| 释义 | > as lemmasFriday feast Friday feast n. (formerly also Friday's feast) also figurative a meal or feast suitable for a day of fasting on a Friday; a feast with fish as the main constituent (see note at sense A. 1). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > meal > [noun] > fast-day meal Friday feast1573 1573 G. Gascoigne Disc. Aduentures Master F. I. in Hundreth Sundrie Flowres 242 What followed next, gesse you that knowe the trade, for in this sort, my Frydayes feast I made. 1649 Bp. J. Hall Resol. & Decisions i. vi. 56 The new master of the place..invites his friends to a friday feast; and, finding no boat there, asks the neighbour whether it were a holiday with the fishermen. 1893 A. W. Tourgée Out of Sunset Sea viii. 89 A Friday feast! Codfish and herring! 1945 in L. C. Wimberly Mid Country 437 At last we were told the meat was ready: a Friday feast representing the three cold-blooded divisions of the vertebrates, fish, batrachians, and reptiles. 1987 Post-Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.) (Nexis) 29 Mar. cc 3 (heading) Favorite Friday feasts. A trio of fish stories get prizes here. 2002 Monterey County Herald (Nexis) 22 Mar. b2 The Lenten fish-fry dinners on Fridays have become legend on the Central Coast. The Friday feasts are put on by the Italian Catholic Federation, which feeds up to 700 people each week during Lent. < as lemmas |
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