Soup Maigre

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. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Give him a _soup-maigre_, a little sallad, and a hind-quarter of a frog, and he's in spirits. ❋ Various (N/A)

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 ❋ Unknown (N/A)

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. ❋ Unknown (1852)

Before getting our soup-maigre, we witnessed another example of Tyrolese devotion. ❋ William Cullen Bryant (1836)

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. ❋ William Cullen Bryant (1836)

It will be exchanging beef for soup-maigre for a week or two. ❋ James Fenimore Cooper (1820)

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. ❋ Tobias George Smollett (1746)

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. ❋ Unknown (2004)

"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!" ❋ Unknown (1827)

Lent, and live only upon _soup-maigre_, until that day arrives, they would not much longer portray in their exterior, that they live upon the fat of the land; but they would vociferously whine out -- "Mea culpa! ❋ Maria Monk (1832)