夕ゆう餉げ

noun

evening meal; supper; dinner

Dated term for the evening meal; in modern Japanese 夕食 (ゆうしょく) or 晩ご飯 (ばんごはん) are far more common. Still encountered in literary or historical contexts.

• 祖そ母ぼは夕ゆう餉げの支し度たくに取とりかかった。

  My grandmother began preparing the evening meal.

• その小しょう説せつでは、家か族ぞくが囲い炉ろ裏りを囲かこんで夕ゆう餉げをとる場ば面めんが描えがかれている。

  The novel depicts a scene where the family has their evening meal around the sunken hearth.