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Definition of Fishball
1. a fish cake [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fishball
Literary usage of Fishball
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1899)
"... popular college song " The Lone fishball." LU im slim. John Mercer, lawyer,
born in slavery in Louisa County, Vu., Dec. 14,1829 ; died iu Washington, ..."
2. My Diary in America in the Midst of War by George Augustus Sala (1865)
"I have heard that " one fishball" is to be had for twelve and a half cents at
... So he enters a restaurant and orders "one fishball"—the surrounding guests ..."
3. Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts by Colonial Society of Massachusetts (1904)
"At this time Lane wrote the now famous ballad of the "Lone fishball," which was
afterwards expanded into an Italian opera — " II ..."
4. Transactions by Colonial Society of Massachusetts (1904)
"At this time Lane wrote the now famous ballad of the "Lone fishball," which was
afterwards expanded into an Italian opera— "II ..."
5. Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 93 by Harvard University (1898)
"... complete the record, two publications of an entirely different sort may here
be mentioned, — the song called Jonah and the ballad of the Lone fishball. ..."
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