lenten

adjective

1. of, relating to, or suitable for Lent.
2. suggesting Lent, as in austerity, frugality, or rigorousness; meager.

adjective

1. (often capital) of or relating to Lent
2. archaic, or literary spare, plain, or meagrelenten fare
3. archaic cold, austere, or sombrea lenten lover

adj.late Old English, from Lent + -en (2). Elizabethan English had Lenten-faced “lean and dismal” (c.1600).