banyan dayとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

banyan day (plural banyan days)

1. (dated, UK, nautical, idiomatic) In British naval tradition, a day of the week when galley kitchens served no meat on board ship.
   • 1819, James Hardy Vaux, Memoirs of James Hardy Vaux, Chapter XVIII, p. 204-205:

     This was a favourable circumstance in one respect to myself and the ship's company, for as Tuesday is a sumptuous day in point of allowance in the navy, beef and pudding being the prescribed fare for dinner, we by this accident feasted two days together; whereas had it occurred on a Monday, Wednesday, or Friday, two successive banyan (or starvation) days would have been our dismal portion.

2. (UK, nautical, idiomatic) A picnic or cookout for the ship's crew.

別の表記

• Banian day, banian day, banian-day

参考

• Daily routine on HMS Victory

参照

• [Francis] Grose [et al.] (1811), “Banyan day”, in Lexicon Balatronicum. A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket Eloquence. […], London: […] C. Chappell, […], →OCLC.