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单词 to fast bread and water
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to fast bread and water
P1. to fast bread and water: to live only on bread and water. Obsolete.
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a1400 Ancrene Riwle (Pepys) (1976) 69 (MED) He schulde haue..þre Moneþes faste bred & watere, bot þe seuendaies, & þe heiȝe feste dayes.
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xi. 383 Thai fastit [1489 Adv. fastyt] bred and vattir ilkone.
a1500 (?c1425) Speculum Sacerdotale (1936) 79 (MED) He faste yche Wedenysday and Friday brede and water and in the toþer dayes with lentyn mete.
1550 J. Heywood Hundred Epigrammes xxviii. sig. Biiv Thou rather wouldest..fast bread and water.
1606 W. Middleton Papisto-mastix xxi. 139 If a man should vow to fast bread and water all the dayes of his life.
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