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Definition of Maigre
1. Noun. Large European marine food fish.
Generic synonyms: Sciaenid, Sciaenid Fish
Group relationships: Genus Sciaena, Sciaena
Definition of Maigre
1. a. Belonging to a fast day or fast; as, a maigre day.
Definition of Maigre
1. Adjective. (context: cookery) Made without meat (and thus permitted to be eaten on a fast day). ¹
2. Adjective. Belonging to a fast day or fast. ¹
3. Noun. A kind of fish; the meagre. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Maigre
1. containing neither flesh nor its juices [adj]
Medical Definition of Maigre
1. Belonging to a fast day or fast; as, a maigre day. Maigre food, food allowed to be eaten on fast days. Origin: F. See Meager. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Maigre
Literary usage of Maigre
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Food and Feeding by Henry Thompson (1899)
"More substantial soups : turtle, ox-tail, and other examples—Bouillabaisse— Soups,
gras and maigre—Receipts for vegetable soup— Practical hints in making ..."
2. A New System of Domestic Cookery: Formed Upon Principles of Economy and by Maria Eliza Ketelby Rundell (1824)
"Very fine Forcemeat-balls, for Fish Soups, or Fish slewed, on maigre days.
Beat the flesh and soft parts of a middling lobster, half an anchovy, ..."
3. Autobiography, Reminiscences and Letters of John Trumbull, from 1756 to 1841 by John Trumbull (1841)
"... and her mission afterwards by Buonaparte to the court of Russia—Dinner (maigre)
in Lent, at two celebrated abbes in Passy, most luxurious—Draw pencil ..."
4. Leaves from Our Tuscan Kitchen: Or, How to Cook Vegetables by Janet Ross (1903)
"... (maigre). Parboil three fine French artichokes for three minutes, drain, pare
the tips and the bottoms, and remove the chokes. ..."
5. A New System of Domestic Cookery: Formed Upon Principles of Economy, and by Maria Eliza Ketelby Rundell (1840)
"Soup maigre. Melt half a pound of butter into a stew-pan, shake it round, and
throw in six middling onions sliced. Shake the nan well for two orthree ..."
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