loche
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of loche
1665–75; < Canadian French, French: loach
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We are to make the acquaintance of other Northern delicacies,—beaver-tails, moose-nose, rabbits' kidneys, caribou-tongues, and the liver of the loche, an ugly-looking fish of these waters.
From The New North by Agnes Deans Cameron
From the waters of this river, since man was, have the Indians drawn and dipped and seined their sustenance—inconnu, jack-fish, grayling, white-fish, and loche.
From The New North by Agnes Deans Cameron
Most of these rivers are well stocked with fish, of which the tétart, banane, loche, and dormeur are the principal varieties.
From Two Years in the French West Indies by Lafcadio Hearn
Storm-stayed at Wrigley Harbour at the entrance to Great Slave Lake, we have some splendid fishing,—jackfish, whitefish, loche, inconnu, "and here and there a lusty trout and here and there a grayling."
From The New North by Agnes Deans Cameron
Who hungers for whitefish-stomachs or liver of the loche?
From The New North by Agnes Deans Cameron
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