Fish-mongress
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Fish-mongress is a noun meaning Alternative form of fishmongeress.
Meaning
Alternative form of fishmongeress.
Example Sentences
This latter class at the time possessed the delicacy of the Hamburg fish-mongress of to-day.
Simple Sandford took his eel / To an old fish-mongress: / “ ’Tis is no conger-eel,” she said, / “But it is a Congress.”
Good Mère Lollier wished to make a fish-mongress of her; mademoiselle spurned the proposal. What! she, a genius, a beauty, a divine voice, waste her life on horrid, ill-smelling fish?
Word Forms
- fish-mongresses
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include fishmongress, fishmongeress, costermongress, mongress, ironmongress, fishwoman.
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