soup maigre
(suːpˈmeɪgə(r))
[ad. F. soupe maigre: see soup n. and maigre a.]
Thin soup, made chiefly from vegetables or fish.
| 1754 Connoisseur No. 19 ¶9 But what, alas! are the weak endeavours of a few to oppose the daily inroads of fricassees and soup maigres? 1766 Miss M. Townshend in Jesse Selwyn & Contemp. (1843) II. 52 If you could persuade them of the wholesomeness of soup maigre and barley bread, it might be of great use to them. 1806 A. Hunter Culina (ed. 3) 67 Its bad effects may in a great measure be taken off by a dinner of mutton broth, or soup maigre, on the following day. 1840 J. B. Fraser Koordistan I. xv. 366 A sort of soup maigre is poured upon it. |
| attrib. 1779 Warner in Jesse Selwyn & Contemp. (1844) IV. 30 Such a number of pinch-bellied, woebegone, skin-and-grief, lanthorn-jawed, soup-maigre subjects. 1794 Wolcot (P. Pindar) Lousiad i. Wks. I. 210, I hate each pale soupe maigre [1812 soup-maigre] thief. |
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Obs.| 1737 Fielding Miser iii. iii, Let there be two great dishes of soup-meagre, a good large suet pudding,..and a dish of artichokes. 1799 in Spirit Public Jrnls. III. 322 Soup⁓meagre in the van, and snuff; roast-beef behind. 1833 Sands Poems 53 (E.D.D.), Soup-meagre, kickshaws, or plain calf's-foot jelly. 1842 Barham Ingol. Leg. Ser. ii. Lay St. Cuthbert, Here was Morbleu (a French devil) supping soup⁓meagre. |