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Lenten
[ len-tn ]
adjective
- of, relating to, or suitable for Lent.
- suggesting Lent, as in austerity, frugality, or rigorousness; meager.
lenten
/ ˈlɛntən /
adjective
- often capital of or relating to Lent
- archaic.spare, plain, or meagre
lenten fare
- archaic.cold, austere, or sombre
a lenten lover
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Example Sentences
One of the first tracts wholly devoted to tobacco is entitled Nash's "Lenten Stuffe."
Even in the present year-1913-the Lenten pastoral of one of the bishops goes back to the same old subject.
After the Christmas holidays the city will be gay until the Lenten season.
It is the method by which one fills a Lenten mitebox—it is disciplinary, that is, it is meant to hurt a little, and it does.
The Lenten, Easter, and Christmas songs are the greatest artistic inheritance handed down to us from the past.
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