Lent"en (?), n.
Lent.
[Obs.]
Piers Plowman.
© Webster 1913.
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.
She quenched her fury at the flood.
And with a Lenten salad cooled her blood.
Dryden.
2.
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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