turbot
noun
a European flatfish, Psetta maxima, having a diamond-shaped body: valued as a food fish.
turbots
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pluralof turbot.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Great turbots and dishes bring great disgrace along with them, together with expense.
From The Works of Horace by Horace
And many other men had in their mouths turbots caught in the Sicilian sea, and swimming eels, and the trail of the tunny-fish of Pachynum, and kids from Melos, and mullets from Symæthus.
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
“Why, you don’t catch turbots here, and like this?”
From Menhardoc by C.J. Staniland
We ourselves are Saxons, Danes, Normans; our neighbours are Franks, not Gauls; who the rest are, Goths, Gepidae, Heruli, Mr. Gibbon knows; and the Dutch usurped the estates of herrings, turbots, and other marine indigenae.
From The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 by Horace Walpole
As for friends, lampreys and turbots beget them, and they spawn not amid the solitude of the Apennines.
From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Walter Savage Landor
