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Beach in Florida
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pompano
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Pompano is a common name for fish in the genus Trachinotus Pompano may also refer to: Pompano Beach, Florida , a city USS Pompano , three US naval boats: USS Pompano (1906) , a supply boat serving during World War I USS Pompano (SS-181) , an infamously ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
ocean fish, 1778, from American Spanish pampano , a name given to various types of fish, from Spanish, originally "vine, tendril," from Latin pampinus "tendril or leaf of a vine."
Usage examples of pompano.
Having caught your fish, you may cook him in a thousand ways, but it is doubtful whether, even with the finest sauce, a pompano will taste half as good as the infantile muskellunge, several pounds under the legal weight, fried unskilfully in pork fat by a horny-handed woodsman, kneeling before an open fire, eighteen minutes after you had given up all hope of having fish for dinner, and had resigned yourself to the dubious prospect of salt pork, eggs, and coffee which any self-respecting coffee-mill would fail to recognize.
In case you missed the action, Rivera hosted a two-hour documentary that included live drug busts from several cities, including Pompano Beach and Miami.
That means beignets and crayfish bisque and jambalaya, it means shrimp remoulade, pecan pie, and red beans with rice, it means elegant pompano au papillote, funky file z'herbes, and raw oysters by the dozen, it means grillades for breakfast, a po' boy with chowchow at bedtime, and tubs of gumbo in between.
Like in the song, I'm a Methodist till I die, but come Friday Lacey still cooks up Pompano and man, who can call that fasting?
As the inner hatch opened, she thought of hibiscus blossoms, parrot fish, and the little lizards that scooted along the wall of the Pompano apartment she had shared with Glenn.