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• Banian Days - Banian Days [Ban-yan ]. Days when no meat is served to a ship's crew. The term is derived from ...
• Jour Maigre - Jour Maigre (French). A day of abstinence, when meat is forbidden to be eaten. (See Banian Days.) ...
• Banyan - Banyan A Hindû shopkeeper. In Bengal it denotes a native who manages the money concerns of a ...
• Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: B - Definitions, origins, and illustrative excerpts for words, phases, and literary allusions starting with "B"