scambling day

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scambling day (plural scambling days)

  1. (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?"