La laitière, à la traite, n'a donné qu'un lait maigre.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unbewitching Jeanne Favret-Saada] Reference

He would have meat upon maigre days, yet objected to paying double for it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels through France and Italy] Reference

Mais bon quite a me detester maigre je continue parce que je souffre vraiment trop de mes genoux!.    From Wordnik.com.  [pinku-tk Diary Entry] Reference

And yes, a lot of people only drink whole, whereas I rarely even see lait maigre,.3%, as an option.    From Wordnik.com.  [You might be a stupid foreigner if,] Reference

La neurologue m'a dit que je devais suivre un regime a la lettre si j'prend le modiodal parce que je suis trop maigre pour le prendre!.    From Wordnik.com.  [pinku-tk Diary Entry] Reference

It will be exchanging beef for soup-maigre for a week or two.    From Wordnik.com.  [Miles Wallingford Sequel to "Afloat and Ashore"] Reference

You are aware what huge whitings are served to us on maigre days.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Count of Monte Cristo] Reference

I must keep maigre; at least till the interdict is taken off from my convent.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3] Reference

Before getting our soup-maigre, we witnessed another example of Tyrolese devotion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters of a Traveller Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America] Reference

He had rather a red nose, he dined maigre because he had to, but he did not like it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Note-Books of Samuel Butler] Reference

Avec de l'embonpoint elles font de l'effet, mais maigre il n'y a aucune illusion possible. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Complete] Reference

Pour la première fois depuis six semaines le petit Chose descend dans les cours, pâle, maigre, plus petit Chose que jamais.    From Wordnik.com.  [Le Petit Chose (part 1) Histoire d'un Enfant] Reference

It was Good Friday, and we were to dine maigre; this was so clearly de rigueur that we did not venture even the feeblest protest.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Note-Books of Samuel Butler] Reference

And had he not been unacquainted with the subtleties of the French mind and language, he might have classed her as a fausse maigre.    From Wordnik.com.  [Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill] Reference

The root of both the Italian and French words for thin (magro and maigre, respectively) is related to our word for not having enough.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

maigre comme un clou = "thin as a nail" thin as a rail.    From Wordnik.com.  [French Word-A-Day:] Reference

95.1 Unprofitable Praise can hardly give it a Soup maigre.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Volume I] Reference