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  • noun Plural form of sterlet.

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Examples

  • “Then am I to order those large sterlets?” asked the steward.

    War and Peace 2003

  • But the best catches were made with the drag-nets, which brought up at each haul carp, bream, salmon, saltwater pike, and a number of medium-sized sterlets, which wealthy gourmets have sent alive to

    Robur the Conqueror 2003

  • Rakitin related afterwards that there were five dishes: fish-soup made of sterlets, served with little fish patties; then boiled fish served in a special way; then salmon cutlets, ice pudding and compote, and finally, blanc-mange.

    The Brothers Karamazov 2003

  • Occasionally -- especially on the occasion of a marriage or a death in the family -- he will give magnificent banquets, and expend enormous sums on gigantic sterlets, choice sturgeons, foreign fruits, champagne, and all manner of costly delicacies.

    Russia Donald Mackenzie Wallace 1880

  • After the sterlets had melted away to their backbones, and the roasted geese had shrunk into drumsticks and breastplates, and here and there a guest's ears began to redden with more rapid blood, Prince Alexis judged that the time for diversion had arrived.

    Beauty and the Beast: and Tales of Home 1872

  • In the tank flapped and swam four superb sterlets, their ridgy backs rising out of the water like those of alligators.

    Beauty and the Beast: and Tales of Home 1872

  • "Then am I to order those large sterlets?" asked the steward.

    War and Peace Leo Tolstoy 1869

  • But the best catches were made with the drag-nets, which brought up at each haul carp, bream, salmon, saltwater pike, and a number of medium-sized sterlets, which wealthy gourmets have sent alive to

    Robur the Conqueror Jules Verne 1866

  • After the sterlets had melted away to their backbones, and the roasted geese had shrunk into drumsticks and breastplates, and here and there a guest's ears began to redden with more rapid blood, Prince Alexis judged that the time for diversion had arrived.

    Beauty and the Beast, and Tales of Home Bayard Taylor 1851

  • In the tank flapped and swam four superb sterlets, their ridgy backs rising out of the water like those of alligators.

    Beauty and the Beast, and Tales of Home Bayard Taylor 1851

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