scanty meal

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• pittance — noun a) A small allowance of food and drink; a scanty meal. So I went to keep house with him at the Why Not? and my aunt sent down my bag of clothes, and would have made over to Elzevir the pittance that my father left for my keep, but he said it …   Wiktionary

• ὀλιγαριστίαν — ὀλιγᾱριστίᾱν , ὀλιγαριστία scanty meal fem acc sg (attic doric aeolic) …   Greek morphological index (Ελληνική μορφολογικούς δείκτες)

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