banyan day

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Definition of banyan day in English English dictionary

In modern usage it refers to a picnic or cookout for the ship's crew

In British naval tradition, this originally referred to a day of the week when galley kitchens served no meat on board ship

Related Terms

banyan days

plural form of banyan day

Hyphenation

ban·yan Day

Turkish pronunciation

bänyın dey

Pronunciation

/ˈbanyən ˈdā/ /ˈbænjən ˈdeɪ/

Etymology

() According to the OED, the term is borrowed from the Banyans in the East Indies, a caste that eat nothing that had life.