English Dictionary

scambling day

名詞

廃用

(obsolete) One of the days during Lent when meat was scarce.

日本語の意味

古い用語で、四旬節中の肉が不足した日を指す（断食期間中の、肉食が制限されていた日の一つを意味する）。

Grandmother always told stories of a scambling day when the village kitchen cooked nothing but fish and barley porridge.

祖母は、村の台所が魚と大麦のお粥だけを作った四旬節の禁肉日のことをいつも話してくれた。

意味（1）

(obsolete) One of the days during Lent when meat was scarce.

You will get no dinner to-day, Roger, said she cheerfully, for this is scambling day, and nothing will be dressed. Don't you see the kitchen fire is not lighted?

scambling days （ plural ）