MAIGRE

a French term applied in cookery to dishes prepared without **hutcher’s meat,’? poultry, or game, and in which butter is used to the exclusion of lard or other fat. They consist chiefly of eggs. fish, and vegetables, and are eaten by Cat holies on occasions which interdict the use of meat, as the term is generally understood. The word also signifies the lean of meat and a low diet; and as an adjective stands for