fishmongress

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English

Noun

fishmongress (plural fishmongresses)

  1. Alternative form of fishmongeress
    • 1890, Henry Lloyd, London: Humorous Readings, page 11:
      VERSES TO A BEAUTIFUL FISHMONGRESS
    • 1900, The Pilot: A Weekly Review of Politics, Literature and Learning, volume 2, page 286:
      They have quite ceased to act as saleswomen, and only some twenty or thirty fishmongresses come occasionally to buy.
    • 1942, Henry Dwight Sedgwick, Memoirs of an Epicurean, pages 284, 286:
      Réjane, the beautiful fishmongress sold silver-grey mackerel, holding them up by the tail in her adorable fingers, a sight that would have ravished Velasquez, and did ravish me. [] And some of me for the Alhambra, and some of me for the fish market at Granada and the loveliest of fishmongresses.
    • 1950, Adrian Carton de Wiart, Happy Odyssey, Pen & Sword, published 2007, reprinted 2011, →ISBN:
      The inhabitants of Ballymena were the kindest I have ever known, they plied us with everything, but best of all with their goodwill, and I never pass through without seeing Jane McCurry, the fishmongress of the town, who always gives me a cup of tea.
    • 1954, Anya Seton, Katherine, Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN:
      Fishmongress’ she calls me, as though Father’s trade was aught to be ’shamed of!”
    • 1963, Alexandria Journal of Agricultural Research, pages 28, 30:
      At the shore, the fish may be packed into jute sacks or doum-palm leaves baskets and taken to the nearest market place for sale to fishmongresses. The fish mongress then puts the fish in whatever container she may have, or just spreads them out on a mat, figure 10. [] Figure 10. Fishmongress at Market Place, Diré, 1962.
    • 2000, Let’s Go: Ireland, →ISBN, page 117:
      Off Grafton St., the statue of the fetching fishmongress Molly Malone is referred to as “the tart with the cart.”
    • 2010 [1987], The Cost of Sugar, HopeRoad Publishing, translation of Hoe duur was de suiker by Cynthia McLeod, →ISBN, revised in 1995:
      Nene Duseisi, the fishmongress, had just explained to her where she could find Ma Akuba: someone who would help her beloved Misi Elza and free her from the cursed Misi Sarith.