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Definition of Pomfret
1. Noun. Deep-bodied sooty-black pelagic spiny-finned fish of the northern Atlantic and northern Pacific; valued for food.
Definition of Pomfret
1. n. One of two or more species of marine food fishes of the genus Stromateus (S. niger, S. argenteus) native of Southern Europe and Asia.
Definition of Pomfret
1. Noun. A fish of family ''Bramidae'', consisting of eight genera and some twenty species. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pomfret
1. a marine fish [n -S]
Medical Definition of Pomfret
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Pomfret
Literary usage of Pomfret
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Connecticut Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly by William Farrand Felch, George C. Atwell, H. Phelps Arms, Frances Trevelyan Miller (1896)
"(Copied from those of the Earl of pomfret). ' Leave not your native land behind
... Sweet vale of pomfret, 'tis to thee I offer now my poesy.1 ' You must to ..."
2. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett (1816)
"pomfret. No, there was no blood that I did see upon it. pomfret. ... Then pray,
wag there no discourse bow he came to be wounded ? pomfret. ..."
3. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1896)
"pomfret is said to have drawn some hints from a study of the character of Sir
... Despite the fact that pomfret was married, the bishop's sus- pomfret ..."
4. Restituta: Or, Titles, Extracts, and Characters of Old Books in English by Egerton Brydges (1816)
"387, where it is said that he was snn to Mr. pomfret, an eminent attorney ...
If Mr. pomfret, the author of The Choice, had been nearly or any way related ..."
5. The Works of Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1825)
"pomfret. OF MR. JOHN pomfret, nothing is known but from a slight and ...
This reproach was easily obliterated : for it had happened to pomfret as to almost ..."
6. The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on by Samuel Johnson (1821)
"JOHN pomfret nothing is known but from a slight and confused account prefixed
... Mr. pomfret, rector of Luton, in Bedfordshire ; that he was bred at Cam- ..."
7. A Catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors of England, Scotland, and Ireland by Horace Walpole, Thomas Park (1806)
"Lord pomfret died in 1753, and a part of the ... It records, that over Britain's
fairest plain " pomfret waves her tutelary wand, And full on learning's ..."
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