surmullet
IPA: sɝmˈʌɫʌt
noun
- A red mullet, Mullus surmuletus.
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Examples of "surmullet" in Sentences
- Both red mullet and surmullet can also refer to the Mullidae in general.
- It was composed of turtle soup made of the most delicate hawks bills, of a surmullet served with puff paste
- Of sea substances, the surmullet, the blacktail, the mullet, and the eel; for these are the fishes most to be guarded against.
- Seius gave for the nightingale the command of a quantity of labour and subsistence equal to what 66l. 13s. 4d. would purchase in the present simes, and Asinius Celer gave for the surmullet the command of a quantity equal to what 88l. 17s. 9d. 1/3 would purchase.
- It was composed of turtle soup made of the most delicate hawks bills, of a surmullet served with puff paste (the liver of which, prepared by itself, was most delicious), and fillets of the emperor-holocanthus, the savour of which seemed to me superior even to salmon.
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