Meaning of fisheress | Babel Free

Definitions

A female fisher.

rare

Examples

“Fancy again, Lady fisheresses (I appeal to good old Tory young ladies who land⟳ big salmon every autumn in or about the Gordon-Richmond estates in Scotland), how much jollier it is to see⟳ the monarch of the stream on the grass than to ‘rink’ at Prince’s, or to be carried round Belgravian drawing-rooms, half dead and quite knocked up, in the mazy waltz. Not that Prince’s is a bad place⟳ by any means, nor ballrooms either. / Now, is not this a romantic opening? I am going to talk⟳ about cockney fishing twenty years ago.”

“With ribbons and rings and fluffy things / She strolls on the sand slopes brown, / As trig as a yacht and without a spot / On the folds of her creamy gown. / ’Tis scarce the dress of a fisheress, / Yet thus to be arrayed / Is parcel and part of the subtle art / Of this fair young fisher maid. / […] Clinton Scollard.”

“Peter. What! Jennings! That black fish⟳, with the very red and blue gills? / Sarah. Why Peter! Peter Perch! Shame on you, Peter! How dare you give⟳ the pious Mr. Simon such scaly names! You see⟳ then, I’m watching all your queer fish⟳ talk⟳. Bless me! After a bit I shall be taken for a fisheress!”

“The various pieces are gathered from more-or-less scientific treatises and begin⟳, as did Peter Corodimas’ “In Trout Country” (Little, Brown, 1971), with Dame Juliana Berners, that amiable fisheress of the fifteenth century, and come⟳ right down to articles in contemporary periodicals.”

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