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.

The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle 2004

Give him a _soup-maigre_, a little sallad, and a hind-quarter of a frog, and he's in spirits.

The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1 Various

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

The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1

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.

The American Union Speaker 1852

Before getting our soup-maigre, we witnessed another example of Tyrolese devotion.

Letters of a Traveller Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America 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.

Letters of a Traveller Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America William Cullen Bryant 1836

It will be exchanging beef for soup-maigre for a week or two.

Miles Wallingford Sequel to "Afloat and Ashore" 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.

The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete 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.

The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Volume 01 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.

The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom 2004