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Definition of Maigres
1. maigre [n] - See also: maigre
Lexicographical Neighbors of Maigres
Literary usage of Maigres
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The royal phraseological English-French, French-English dictionary by John Charles Tarver (1853)
"... faisons grot toute la semaine, we eat meat every day. faites-vous gras les
jours maigres, do you eat meat on fast days? ..."
2. The Popular Science Review: A Quarterly Miscellany of Entertaining and (1874)
"We will take the maigres, a description of whose musical performance has been
... M. Dufossé would limit the range of sounds produced by the maigres, ..."
3. Contes Populaires Recueillis en Agenais Par M. Jean-François Bladé by Jean-François Bladé, Reinhold Köhler (1874)
"Homme aux dents rouges, parle-nous de ces prés si maigres qu'on aurait pu y
ramasser le sel ; pourtant les bestiaux étaient gras à lard. ..."
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