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 Fish.Fish-wife (A). 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Fish-day (A) [jour maigre].
 
A day in the Roman Catholic Church when persons, without ecclesiastical permission, are forbidden to eat meat.   1
 


 Fish.Fish-wife (A). 

 
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