fishsauce

plural fishsauces

1. countablerareuncountableRare form of fish sauce.

   Fishsauce Factories Assn. [Samut Sakhon, Thailand]

   1994, “Alphabetic Index to Organization Names and Keywords”, in Jacqueline K. Barrett et al., editors, Encyclopedia of Associations: International Organizations […], 28th edition, supplement, Detroit, Mich.: Gale Research, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 111, column 2

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   I ordered some Madeira,—mine host himself vanished—I had scarcely compounded the fishsauce, before, like Aladdin’s genius, he stood again before me, holding in his hand a bottle of the wished-for wine.

   1836, Theodore Hook, chapter XII, in Gilbert Gurney, Paris: […] A[nthony] and W[illiam] Galignani and Co., […], →OCLC, page 227

   You want me and my men, pepper, and cayenne, and anchovies, and fishsauce, etc., etc., to rule over you. […] “Three cheers for mustard!” cried the fishsauce.

   1849 October 1, E. L. F., “From the Child’s Friend. Frank and Harry. Good Things to Eat.”, in M. Hazen White, editor, The School Friend. […], volume IV, number 1, Cincinnati, Oh.: W. B. Smith & Co. […], →OCLC, page 4, column 3

   I heard mamma tell Sophy herself this morning to write for some fishsauce, because she said that Polysyllable was so fanciful about his dinner.

   1862 [1861], [Charlotte Mary Yonge], chapter XXV, in The Young Step-Mother; or, A Chronicle of Mistakes, volume II, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, […], →OCLC, page 154

   The picture of their life that follows suggests in a few words a country kitchen—the sizzling of fish over the charcoal fire, fanned by the bellows to a hot flame, the mixing up of a Thasian sauce for the fish, the kneading of dough. (The fishsauce—liparampuka—is a parody of Pindar’s ‘with shiny fillet’, Nemean VII, 22).

   1956, Katherine Lever, “Aristophanes, Comic Poet”, in The Art of Greek Comedy, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC, page 140

   In 1921 Yntrencherado moved to Gigantes Island off the northeast coast of Panay where he worked as a fishsauce (ginamos) merchant and had another series of visions: […]

   1982, Alfred W[illiam] McCoy, “Baylan: Animist Religion and Philippine Peasant Ideology”, in David K[ent] Wyatt, Alexander Woodside, editors, Moral Order and the Question of Change: Essays on Southeast Asian Thought (Monograph Series No. 24), Newhaven, Conn.: Yale University Southeast Asia Studies, →ISBN, page 384