pomfret

plural pomfrets

1. A fish of family Bramidae, consisting of eight genera and some twenty species.
2. Any in the genus Pampus (family Stromateidae) of butterfishes.
3. A golden pomfret (Trachinotus blochii, family Carangidae).
4. A black pomfret (Parastromateus niger, family Carangidae).

plural Pomfrets

1. countableuncountableA surname.

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   The young lady, who made her firſt appearance in Lady Bab Lardoon, at the Haymarket on Monday night laſt, is a Miſs Prideaux, and lineally deſcended from one of the daughters and co-heireſſes of the Right Hon. John Wilmot, the witty Earl of Rocheſter, and conſequently related to the Sandwiches, Pomfrets, Coopers, and many other noble families.

   1788 July 10, “Friday’s Post”, in The Ipswich Journal, number 3026, Ipswich, Suffolk, published 12 July 1788, page [2], column 1

2. A number of places in the United States:
   1. countableuncountableA town in Windham County, Connecticut.
   2. countableuncountableA census-designated place in Charles County, Maryland.
   3. countableuncountableA town in Chautauqua County, New York.
   4. countableuncountableA town in Windsor County, Vermont.
3. countableuncountableA town in North West province, South Africa.