fishmongress

Example Sentences

• "VERSES TO A BEAUTIFUL FISHMONGRESS"
• "They have quite ceased to act as saleswomen, and only some twenty or thirty fishmongresses come occasionally to buy."
• "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."
• "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."
• "‘Fishmongress’ she calls me, as though Father’s trade was aught to be ’shamed of!”"
• "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."