fishmongress

plural fishmongresses

1. alternativeAlternative form of fishmongeress.

   VERSES TO A BEAUTIFUL FISHMONGRESS

   1890, Henry Lloyd, London: Humorous Readings, page 11

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   They have quite ceased to act as saleswomen, and only some twenty or thirty fishmongresses come occasionally to buy.

   1900, The Pilot: A Weekly Review of Politics, Literature and Learning, volume 2, page 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.

   1942, Henry Dwight Sedgwick, Memoirs of an Epicurean, pages 284, 286

   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.

   1950, Adrian Carton de Wiart, Happy Odyssey, Pen & Sword, published 2007, reprinted 2011, →ISBN

   ‘Fishmongress’ she calls me, as though Father’s trade was aught to be ’shamed of!”

   1954, Anya Seton, Katherine, Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN

   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.

   1963, Alexandria Journal of Agricultural Research, pages 28, 30