kingdom of Pisces

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English

Proper noun

kingdom of Pisces

  1. (figuratively) The domain of fish; the sea.
    • 1599, [Thomas] Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, , London: [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N L and C B , →OCLC, page 20:
      Now it is high heaking time, and bee the windes neuer so eaſterly aduerſe and the tyde fled from vs, wee must violently towe and hale in our redoubtable Sophy, of the floating kingdom of Piſces, whome ſo much as by name I ſhoulde not haue acknowledged, had it not beene that I muſed, how Yarmouth ſhould be inueſted in ſuch plenty and opulence, conſidering that in M. Hackluit’s [i.e., Richard Hakluyt’s] Engliſh diſcoueries, I haue not come in ken of one mizzen maſt of a man of warre bound for the Indies, or mediteranean ſternebearer ſente from her Zenith or Meridian; [...]
    • 1975, Maxine Moore, That Lonely Game: Melville, Mardi, and the Almanac (University of Missouri Studies; no. 63), Columbia, Mo.: University of Missouri Press, →ISBN, page 141:
      The episode is also a love story between Captain Cook and his beloved sea: the adventures of Mars through Neptune's kingdom of Pisces.