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  • noun A market where fish is sold.

Etymologies

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fish +‎ market

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Examples

  • She told her parents the truth - that the real father of the child was a young man who worked in the fishmarket.

    Blog De Ganz | Archive | September 2007

  • A French parliament at the present day would attempt in vain to raise a regiment of such porters as we have mentioned; it could, with all its efforts, merely rouse into frenzy a few women of the fishmarket.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • A chuul is a big thing with claws like a lobster, tentacles like an octopus, and breath like an open-air fishmarket on a hot day.

    gloriagoodbody: Not again. gloriagoodbody 2006

  • A chuul is a big thing with claws like a lobster, tentacles like an octopus, and breath like an open-air fishmarket on a hot day.

    Gloria Goodbody gloriagoodbody 2006

  • It was Antonio, plying his usual load of fresh crabs for the fishmarket.

    The Shadow Of The Lion Lackey, Mercedes 2002

  • All of my friends and I got ice cream at the fishmarket before the dance because there weren't any people there at first.

    eratoasis Diary Entry eratoasis 2001

  • I have stood bare-breasted in the fishmarket for you.

    Lord of Chaos Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1994

  • Cathedral, the fishmarket at Billingsgate, the British Museum, and a number of other damnably edifying spectacles.

    The Lunatic at Large 1907

  • Hampton Court, he had suddenly become seized with such a rage that, incontinently, he had run his sword through an old fishwife in the fishmarket where he was who had given him the news, newly come by sea, thinking that because he was an Englishman this marriage of his King might gladden him.

    The Fifth Queen Crowned Ford Madox Ford 1906

  • Now, on my own first visit to London I remember being taken -- by the hand -- to Madame Tussaud's Waxworks, the Tower, St Paul's Cathedral, the fishmarket at Billingsgate, the British Museum, and a number of other damnably edifying spectacles.

    The Lunatic At Large 1905

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