fishmongress

See also: fish mongress and fish-mongress

English edit

Noun edit

fishmongress (plural fishmongresses)

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^[sic] 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.