| 单词 | friday fare |
| 释义 | > as lemmasFriday fare Friday fare n. (formerly also Friday's fare) food, esp. fish, suitable for a day of fasting on a Friday; food considered to be plain and simple (cf. Friday feast n.). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food otherwise characterized > [noun] > Lenten or fast-day food Lent meata1200 Lenten stuffa1513 Jack-a-Lent1548 Lent stuff1573 Lent provision1615 fast fooda1627 Friday fare1633 1633 Match at Mid-night ii. i. sig. C4v You must pardon Sir our rudenesse, Fridayes fare for my selfe, a dish of egges and a Rabbet, I lookt for no stranger faces. a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Henry V xlix, in Poems (1878) IV. 113 That he might haue his Capons, fryday fare. 1864 Ld. Tennyson Enoch Arden in Enoch Arden, etc. 6 The lonely Hall, Whose Friday fare was Enoch's ministering. 1913 Catholic Encycl. IX. 342/2 Friday Street was the market for Friday fare—dried fish. 1994 Ottawa Citizen (Nexis) 8 Aug. b4 Smoked fish is not the poor man's Friday fare. With prices running from about $ 15 to $ 52 a kilogram, the clientele deserves to be demanding. < as lemmas |
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