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Jack-a-lent   Listen
noun
Jack-a-lent  n.  A small stuffed puppet to be pelted in Lent; hence, a simple fellow.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Jack-a-lent" Quotes from Famous Books



... of butter, apples, &c." Jennings. It is not a pancake here, evidently. "Untill at last by the skill of the cooke, it is transform'd into the forme of a flapjack, which in our translation is cald a pancake." Taylor's Jack-a-lent, ...
— Early English Meals and Manners • Various



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