Lent
/lɛnt/ nom C2En français : carême
- A period of the ecclesiastical year preceding Easter, traditionally involving temporary abstention from certain foods and pleasures. · Hezekiah gave up vaping for Lent.
- The 40 days preceding Lazarus Saturday, the Saturday preceding Holy Week.
- The 46 days preceding Easter, reckoned as 40 days by excluding Sundays.
- vassa, period of the Buddhist lent during the rainy season
Pluriel Lents
Dans la bibliothèque
Then, by the gleam of a lamp, similar to that which lighted the columbarium, Albert was to be seen wrapped up in a cloak which one of the bandits had lent him, lying in a corner in profound slumber.
I got that name out of the book Diana lent me.
Ruby Gillis gave me an apple and Sophia Sloane lent me a lovely pink card with ‘May I see you home?’ on it.
Matthew nodded over a _Farmers’ Advocate_ on the sofa and Anne at the table studied her lessons with grim determination, despite sundry wistful glances at the clock shelf, where lay a new book that Jane Andrews had lent her that day.
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