Etymology

pomfret

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Today it means: A fish of family Bramidae, consisting of eight genera and some twenty species. Full definition →

Portuguese pampano
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  1. Portuguese · derived frompampano
  2. English todaypomfret

Perhaps derived from Portuguese pampano, a kind of fish.

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