sea-bream

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A crisped, fresh sea-bream fillet served on a spoonful of tangy tomato couscous and velvety wilted spinach is more good value at just £8.50.

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  1. One of several sparoid fishes; with some authors, the Sparidæ in general. The common sea-bream is Pagellus centrodontus. The Spanish sea-bream is P. bogaraveo. The black sea-bream is Cantharus lineatus. The becker, P. erythrinus, is known as kiny of the sea-breams.
  2. A fish, of the family Bramidæ, Brama or Lepodus rayi, distantly related to the mackerels and dolphins.

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  • A crisped, fresh sea-bream fillet served on a spoonful of tangy tomato couscous and velvety wilted spinach is more good value at just £8.50. —  The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
  • As yet I've been unable to identify exactly which caves these are, but it's curious to see the sea-bream raise its glistening head once more in the Palaeolithic, and on the same Iberian peninsular, albeit hundreds of miles away to the north of Gibraltar, and a good 12,000-14,000 years later. —  remote central
  • The funny part of it was that all they caught were goruki; of sea-bream there was not a sign. —  Botchan (Master Darling)
  • A number of small parrot-fish, sea-bream, and mottled cod at once appeared and devoured the fragments. —  Rídan The Devil And Other Stories 1899
  • Is precious as a sea-bream's eye. —  The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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