maigre

Made neither of flesh-meat nor with the gravy of flesh-meat: applied to the dishes used by Roman Catholics during Lent and on the days on which abstinence from flesh-meat is enjoined.

Of or pertaining to a fast or fast-day.

noun

An acanthopterygian fish of the genus Sciæna, specifically S. aquila, a large and very powerful fish common in the Mediterranean and occasionally taken on the British coasts.

adjective

Belonging to a fast day or fast.

adjective

food allowed to be eaten on fast days.

adjective

Made without meat (and thus permitted to be eaten on a fast day).

adjective

Belonging to a fast day or fast.

noun

A kind of fish; the meagre.

noun

large European marine food fish