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  • noun Plural form of salmon.

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Examples

  • It yeeldeth plenty of fish, and those very great, as seales, and those which commonly we call salmons: there are soles also aboue a yard in length: but especially there is great abundance of that kinde of fish which the Sauages call baccalaos.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I. Richard Hakluyt 1584

  • By then, most of the generation that experienced the catastrophe of 1948 at first hand will have died; there will be "very few 'salmons' around who still want to return to their birthplaces to die."

    Camp David and After: An Exchange (1. An Interview with Ehud Barak) Morris, Benny 2002

  • He characterizes Palestinian refugees as "salmons" whose yearning to return to their land somehow is supposed to fade away in roughly eighty years in a manner that the Jewish people's never did, even after two thousand years.

    Camp David and After: An Exchange (2. A Reply to Ehud Barak) Agha, Hussein 2002

  • Take for instance Roger Fry's Omega studio, founded in London in 1913, where Bloomsbury artists designed fabrics and furniture in venetian reds, salmons and lemon yellows, to reflect the fresh air of the changing times, in direct rebellion against the formal antiques and heavy draperies of Victorian interiors.

    The Rise of the Personal Katie Roiphe 2011

  • Ask for help choosing between king, coho and sockeye salmons, and a dozen or so other smoked fish.

    Port Townsend, Washington Larry M. Greenberg 2011

  • A cyclist who runs a light or salmons is only breaking the law at that moment, but the woman driving with a suspended license is breaking the law from the moment she puts her car in gear, and the reality is that streets are just as full of rogue drivers as rogue cyclists.

    People Are People: Dealing With It BikeSnobNYC 2010

  • Instead of uploading the data into an RFID, the sender imprints the message into the animal's behavior, so that rather than downloading electronic bits of information, the receiver decodes the recipe from the subtle wiggling of salmons as they head upstream.

    Faunal High Jinks 2008

  • Well, whatever it is for, the last leg of its journey to New York will be undertaken by RFID-tagged salmons.

    Faunal High Jinks 2008

  • A phantasmagoria of every style of condiment, sauce, chocolate bars and various packaged smoked salmons among the many foods sampled there, the Summer Fancy Food Show provides an incredible education for any journalist or professional foodie in the edible delights of a region or a country.

    Brad Balfour: Salivating at The Summer Fancy Food Show 2010

  • A phantasmagoria of every style of condiment, sauce, chocolate bars and various packaged smoked salmons among the many foods sampled there, the Summer Fancy Food Show provides an incredible education for any journalist or professional foodie in the edible delights of a region or a country.

    Brad Balfour: Salivating at The Summer Fancy Food Show 2010

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