Definitions

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  • noun A person who sells fish.

Etymologies

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fish +‎ seller

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Examples

  • But Ali pulled out the serpents and cast them down before him; whereat the fishseller, who was afraid of snakes, fled from them into the inner shop.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Otokichi the fishseller, who had come to look for me, accompanied by his wife.

    In Ghostly Japan Lafcadio Hearn 1877

  • But Ali pulled out the serpents and cast them down before him; whereat the fishseller, who was afraid of snakes, fled from them into the inner shop.

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

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