fish-mongress

fish-mongress (plural fish-mongresses)

1. Alternative form of fishmongeress
   • 1866 October, “A Nursery Rhyme on the Great Eel, Fished up in the See of Worcester”, in The Town Crier: Or, Jacob’s Belles Lettres, volume VI, number 3, Birmingham, page 7:

     Simple Sandford took his eel / To an old fish-mongress: / “ ’Tis is no conger-eel,” she said, / “But it is a Congress.”

   • 1877 May, “Nanette. A Legend of the Days of Louis XV.”, in The Catholic World. A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science., volume XXV, number 146, New York, N.Y.: The Catholic Publication Society Company, chapter I, page 271:

     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?

   • 1916, Heinrich Böhmer, “Luther as a Scholar and Author”, in Carl F. Huth, Jr., transl., Luther in Light of Recent Research, New York, N.Y.: The Christian Herald, page 195:

     This latter class at the time possessed the delicacy of the Hamburg fish-mongress of to-day.