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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A thin soup made chiefly from vegetables or fish, originally intended to be eaten on fast-days, when flesh meat is not allowed.
Examples
“At each end there are dishes of the salacacabia of the Romans; one is made of parsley, pennyroyal, cheese, pine-tops, honey, brine, eggs, cucumbers, onions, and hen livers; the other is much the same as the soup-maigre of this country.”
“Give him a _soup-maigre_, a little sallad, and a hind-quarter of a frog, and he's in spirits.”
The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1
“I confess the gazettes do but afford a soup-maigre, whip-syllabub sort of narrative, accurate enough, perhaps in the main, but plaguily incommunicative of particulars: for instance, in the recent affair at”
“Why, see and provide something to cloy their stomachs: let there be two good dishes of soup-maigre; a large suet pudding; some dainty, fat pork-pie, very fat; a fine, small lean breast of mutton, and a large dish with two artichokes.”
“Before getting our soup-maigre, we witnessed another example of Tyrolese devotion.”
Letters of a Traveller Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America
“At the post-house on the Brenner, where we stopped on Saturday evening, we were absolutely refused any thing but soup-maigre and fish; the postmaster telling us that the priest had positively forbidden meat to be given to travellers.”
Letters of a Traveller Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America
“It will be exchanging beef for soup-maigre for a week or two.”
“You have been living upon rye-bread and soup-maigre, and now you come over like a walking atomy with a rat's tail at your wig, and a tinsey jacket.”
“You have been living upon rye-bread and soup-maigre, and now you come over like a walking atomy with a rat’s tail at your wig, and a tinsey jacket.”
“the man who has but half a shirt will pawn it to-night to buy a good supper and an opera-ticket: to-morrow for fish and soup-maigre -- fasting and repentance!”
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