LENTEN

n. a.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
n.

Lent. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.

2.
a.

Of or pertaining to the fast called Lent; used in, or suitable to, Lent; as, the Lenten season. She quenched her fury at the flood. And with a Lenten salad cooled her blood. Dryden.

3.
a.

Spare, meager; plain; somber; unostentatious; not abundant or showy. "Lenten entertainment." " Lenten answer." Shak. " Lenten suit." Beau. & Fl. Lenten color, black or violet. F. G. Lee.

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