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- noun A
shop that sellswet fish andseafood
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Examples
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The staff are warmly welcoming and well-drilled, and the restaurant is a great space, too – a dark, cosy and informal, with a bar running along one wall and a fishmonger's shop at the entrance.
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The oldest known written version of the ballad of Molly Malone has found a new home in Dublin's fair city – as the song's lyrics describe it – despite some feeling that it represents a slanderous view of the fishmonger's character.
Oldest known version of ballad of Molly Malone finds new home 2010
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So you're at your local fishmonger's, and you've been trying to get your family to eat more fish because you know it's good for them, and you're eyeing that wild-caught salmon yet again, and your littlest one pipes up beside you, "Mommy, I hate that fishy fish!" ...
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I don't think you'll ever find limpets at a fishmonger's - they're one of those things that take so long to gather I can't imagine they're commercially viable.
The Humble Limpet (Petalida): A Treasure of the Sea (Η Tαπεινή Πεταλίδα) Laurie Constantino 2008
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O'Toole went straight down to the market and picked up the snails, wrapped in a paper sack at the fishmonger's counter.
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The song locates Molly "by the big hill of Howth", plausibly enough for a fishmonger's daughter, as the suburb north of Dublin city – the setting for another famously erotic encounter with a Molly, Molly Bloom in James Joyce's Ulysses – has been a fishing village since Viking times.
Tart with a cart? Older song shows Dublin's Molly Malone in new light 2010
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She, on the other hand, has acted like a fishmonger's wife, not a stateswoman or a lady.
Four Florida Members Of Congress Who Backed Hillary Come Out For Obama 2009
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She looks like a fishmonger's wife at this point - screeching out the day's specials in the market place.
Hillary Hits Critics For Taking Her RFK Assassination Remarks "Out Of Context" 2009
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She looks like a fishmonger's wife at this point - screeching out the day's specials in the market place.
Hillary Hits Critics For Taking Her RFK Assassination Remarks "Out Of Context" 2009
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My late dad used it to mean complete nonsense and would use it in front of the ladies thus granting it a level of decency that the rest of his colourful fishmonger's vocabulary never earned and which never crossed the threshold of our home.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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