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Plaice   Listen
noun
Plaice  n.  (Zool.)
(a)
A European food fish (Pleuronectes platessa), allied to the flounder, and growing to the weight of eight or ten pounds or more.
(b)
A large American flounder (Paralichthys dentatus; called also brail, puckermouth, and summer flounder. The name is sometimes applied to other allied species. (Written also plaise)
Plaice mouth, a mouth like that of a plaice; a small or wry mouth. (R.)






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"Plaice" Quotes from Famous Books



... ma moother died. She did 'ave a way wi' 'er, ma moother. Th' 'ould plaice 'as not bin t' same to me sin' she went. Daytime, tha knaws, A'm all reeght. Tha sees, them engines, them an' me's pals. They talks to me an' A understands their ways. A doan't some'ow seem to understand th' ways o' folks like as A does th' ways o' ...
— The Atlantic Book of Modern Plays • Various

... in all the kinds of fish in common use—cod, ling, haddock, hake, mackerel, herring, whiting, conger, turbot, brill, bream, soles, plaice, dories, and salmon. The banks off the coast of Galway are frequented by myriads of excellent fish; yet, of the small quantity caught, the bulk is taken in the immediate neighbourhood of the shores. Galway bay is said to be the finest ...
— Men of Invention and Industry • Samuel Smiles

... I think wen i've bin a gaping and starin' at you in the streats, that i shud ever happli to you for gustice. Isntet a shame that peeple puts advurtusmints in the papers for a howsmaid for a lark, as it puts all the poor survents out of plaice ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, Complete • Various

... I was reckoning that—she being from foreign parts and the Islands the first place she've touched at, I might pick up a bravish order in the way of fresh milk and eggs, not to mention that Job Clemow sold me half-a-hundredweight of plaice, with a cod or two, that he ...
— Major Vigoureux • A. T. Quiller-Couch



Words linked to "Plaice" :   Pleuronectes platessa, righteyed flounder, Pleuronectes, righteye flounder, American plaice, genus Pleuronectes, flounder



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