"banyan day" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "According to the OED, the term is borrowed from the Banyans in the East Indies, a caste that ate nothing that had life.",
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          "ref": "1819, James Hardy Vaux, Memoirs of James Hardy Vaux, Chapter XVIII, p. 204-205:",
          "text": "This was a favourable circumstance in one respect to myself and the ship's company, for as Tuesday is a sumptuous day in point of allowance in the navy, beef and pudding being the prescribed fare for dinner, we by this accident feasted two days together; whereas had it occurred on a Monday, Wednesday, or Friday, two successive banyan (or starvation) days would have been our dismal portion.",
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        "In British naval tradition, a day of the week when galley kitchens served no meat on board ship."
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        "(dated, UK, nautical, idiomatic) In British naval tradition, a day of the week when galley kitchens served no meat on board ship."
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        {
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          "word": "Banian day"
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          "word": "banian day"
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          "word": "banian-day"
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      "glosses": [
        "A picnic or cookout for the ship's crew."
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        "(UK, nautical, idiomatic) A picnic or cookout for the ship's crew."
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  "etymology_text": "According to the OED, the term is borrowed from the Banyans in the East Indies, a caste that ate nothing that had life.",
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    {
      "word": "Banian day"
    },
    {
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    },
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      "word": "banian-day"
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