Lenten

lenten
    adj 1: of or relating to or suitable for Lent; "lenten food"
    

Lenten \Lent"en\ (l[e^]nt"'n), n.
   Lent. [Obs.] --Piers Plowman.
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Lenten \Lent"en\, a. [From OE. lenten lent. See {Lent}, n. ]
   1. Of or pertaining to the fast called Lent; used in, or
      suitable to, Lent; as, the Lenten season.
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            She quenched her fury at the flood,
            And with a Lenten salad cooled her blood. --Dryden.
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   2. Spare; meager; plain; somber; unostentatious; not abundant
      or showy. "Lenten entertainment." " Lenten answer."
      --Shak. " Lenten suit." --Beau. & Fl.
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   {Lenten color}, black or violet. --F. G. Lee.
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66 Moby Thesaurus words for "Lenten":
      Apostolic, Encratic, Pythagorean, Rechabite, Shaker, Spartan,
      Stoic, abstemious, abstinent, ascetic, austere, celibate, chaste,
      continent, dwarfed, dwarfish, exiguous, fasting, frugal,
      fruitarian, impoverished, jejune, lean, limited, meager, mean,
      miserly, narrow, nephalistic, niggardly, on the wagon, paltry,
      parsimonious, poor, puny, quadragesimal, scant, scanty, scrawny,
      scrimp, scrimpy, sexually abstinent, skimp, skimpy, slender,
      slight, slim, small, spare, sparing, starvation, stingy, stinted,
      straitened, stunted, subsistence, sworn off, teetotal, thin,
      uneating, unfed, unnourishing, unnutritious, vegetarian, watered,
      watery