ˈfish-day
[f. fish n.1 + day.]
A day on which fish is eaten, usually in obedience to an ecclesiastical ordinance; a fast-day.
| a 1327 Pol. Songs (Camden) 151 On fyhshe day launprey ant lax. c 1440 Anc. Cookery in Househ. Ord. (1790) 429 Take almondes and..tempur hom, on fyssheday wyth wyn, and on flesheday with broth of flesh. 1564 Act 5 Eliz. c. 5 It shall not be lawfull..to eate any flesh vpon any dayes now vsually obserued as fish dayes, or vpon any Wednesday now newly limited to be obserued as fish day. 1641 ‘Smectymnuus’ Vind. Answ. §2. 12 In the Calendar Fish dayes are now called Fasting days. 1699 T. Brown in R. L'Estrange Colloq. Erasm. (1711) 358 If it happened to be a fish-day, we had sometimes three whitings. |