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单词 black fast
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black fast
black fast n. chiefly Roman Catholic Church a fast which includes abstinence from milk and eggs; cf. black fasting adj. at Compounds 1d(b).
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black fast1519
1519 in A. M. Cooke Act Bk. Eccl. Court Whalley (1901) 67 Elizabetha..assereba[t] se velle perficere vnum Jeiunium vocatum, the blakffast, ad invodandam vindictam contra Edmundum Parker.
1577 R. Barnes Charge in Newcastle Tracts (1850) VI. 16 That no..superfluous faste be vsed as those called the Lady fast saint trinyons fast, the black faste.
1864 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 397/2 The Viceroy..puts the household one day every week on cold mutton, and makes Friday a black fast.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. 145 Their butteries and larders. I'd like to see them do the black fast Yom Kippur.
1977 T. Kilroy Talbot's Box (1979) 21 Sure it's only during Lent, doctor, he does the black fast.
2008 S. Heaney in D. O'Driscoll Stepping Stones ii. viii. 232 I'd been hearing about..people in earlier generations doing ‘the black fast’. Apparently they would walk the whole way to Donegal, keeping going on black tea and dry bread.
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