What does fish-mongress mean?

fish-mongress

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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

fish-mongresses (plural)

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