"last meal" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: last meals [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} last meal (plural last meals)
  1. A final meal that a prisoner may choose before being executed. Wikipedia link: last meal Categories (topical): Capital punishment, Prison Translations (final meal before being executed): Henkersmahlzeit [feminine] (German), Henkersmahl [neuter] (German), 最後の食事 (saigo no shokuji) (alt: さいごのしょくじ) (Japanese)

Inflected forms

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