scambling day
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scambling
day
(
plural
scambling days
)
(
obsolete
)
One of the days during
Lent
when
meat
was
scarce
.
1863
, William Meynell Whittemore,
Sunshine
, page 2:
"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?"
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