fish mongress

See also: fish-mongress and fishmongress

English

Noun

fish mongress (plural fish mongresses)

  1. Alternative form of fishmongeress
    • 1826 January 24, Vermont Gazette‎, volume XVII, number 8 (whole 840), Bennington, Vt.: Darius Clark:
      The venerable fish mongress deposed that the law student was in the practice of occasionally taking oysters at her shop;
    • 1963, Alexandria Journal of Agricultural Research, page 28:
      The fish mongress then puts the fish in whatever container she may have, or just spreads them out on a mat, figure 10.
    • 2012, Robert Garlough, Angus Campbell, Modern Garde Manger: A Global Perspective, 2nd edition, Delmar, page 382:
      Laura Foley Ramsden is a fourth-generation fish mongress and owner of Foley Fish.
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