精しょう進じん落おち

noun

first meal with meat/fish after abstinence

Refers to the first meal containing meat or fish eaten after a period of religious dietary abstinence (精進). Often used in Buddhist contexts.

• 精しょう進じん落おちの膳ぜんには、久ひさしぶりの魚さかなが並ならんでいた。

  On the tray for the first meal after abstinence, there was fish for the first time in a long while.