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Bream

noun
(pl. bream)
1.
Flesh of various freshwater fishes of North America or of Europe.  Synonym: freshwater bream.
2.
Flesh of any of various saltwater fishes of the family Sparidae or the family Bramidae.  Synonym: sea bream.
3.
Any of numerous marine percoid fishes especially (but not exclusively) of the family Sparidae.  Synonym: sea bream.
4.
Any of various usually edible freshwater percoid fishes having compressed bodies and shiny scales; especially (but not exclusively) of the genus Lepomis.  Synonym: freshwater bream.



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"Bream" Quotes from Famous Books



... piece of the bank on this side to the distance of several hundred yards, making the river bed at this sweep quite 800 yards across and well-timbered round the sweep on this side; caught some excellent fish this afternoon, a black bream, the largest five inches deep and fifteen to sixteen inches in length, excellent firm-eating fish and a great help to our evening meal. Distance today about fifteen and two-thirds miles. Rained a little during the afternoon with first of all ...
— McKinlay's Journal of Exploration in the Interior of Australia • John McKinlay

... yet I did not move, while the other fellow pulled out a bream, Oh! I never saw such a large one before, never! And then my wife began to talk aloud, as if she were thinking, and you can see her trickery. She said: 'That is what one might call stolen fish, seeing that we baited the place ourselves. At any rate, they ought to give us back the ...
— Selected Writings of Guy de Maupassant • Guy de Maupassant

... islands have some fertile and well-watered valleys and plains. The chief productions are wheat, wine, oil, mastic, figs, raisins, honey, wax, cotton and silk. The people are employed in fishing for coral and sponges, as well as for bream, mullet and other fish. The men are hardy, well built and handsome; and the women are noted for their beauty, the ancient Greek type being well preserved. The Cyclades and Northern Sporades, with Euboea and small islands ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia

... party, with the FOURRIERS sent forward to prepare a lodging at the next stage. We find almost Gargantuan details of the provision made by these officers against the duke's arrival, of eggs and butter and bread, cheese and peas and chickens, pike and bream and barbel, and wine both white and red. (2) Sometimes he went by water in a barge, playing chess or tables with a friend in the pavilion, or watching other vessels as they went before the wind. (3) Children ran along the bank, as they do to this day on the Crinan Canal; and when ...
— Familiar Studies of Men & Books • Robert Louis Stevenson

... floor, and fish swim in rocky channels round about the room, waiting to be caught and killed for the banquet. We dine; and we feast on the head of the ostrich, the brains of the peacock, the liver of the bream, the milk of the murena, and the tongue of the flamingo. A flight of doves, nightingales, beccaficoes are concentrated into one dish. On great occasions we eat a phoenix. Our saucepans are of silver, our dishes of gold, our vases of onyx, and our cups of precious ...
— Callista • John Henry Cardinal Newman

... of the ignominy of catching shiners and suckers, or, at the best, mudcats, as they called the yellow catfish; but there were boys, of those who cursed and swore, who caught sunfish, as they called the bream; and there were men who were reputed to catch at will, as it were, silvercats and river-bass. They fished with minnows, which they kept in battered tin buckets that they did not allow you even to touch, or hardly to look ...
— A Boy's Town • W. D. Howells

... and the sleeping gulls, which woke in fright, and volubly accused one another of nightmares and riotous behaviour—and Bernel hauled in his boat, and handed Gard the tin dipper and three good-sized bream. ...
— A Maid of the Silver Sea • John Oxenham



Words linked to "Bream" :   freshwater fish, Abramis brama, porgy, Lepomis macrochirus, black bream, percoid fish, percoidean, Archosargus rhomboidalis, order Percomorphi, Lepomis punctatus, European bream, Perciformes, stumpknocker, saltwater fish, percoid, freshwater bream, clean, Percomorphi, Pagellus centrodontus, Atlantic sea bream, sea bream, bluegill, sunfish, order Perciformes, pomfret, centrarchid, make clean, spotted sunfish, Chrysophrys australis, Brama raii



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