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pompano|ˈpɒmpənəʊ|
Also pampano, pompono, pompinoe.
[a. Sp. pámpano, applied to a stromateoid fish, Stromateus fiatola.]
1. A North American or West Indian marine fish belonging to the genera Trachinotus, Parona, or Zalocys, of the family Carangidæ, esp. Trachinotus carolinus, the common pompano, found near south-eastern coasts of North America.
1778tr. J. Chappe d'Auteroche's Voy. California 24 The pampano is very plenty in the southern part of the gulph of Mexico. 1840Picayune (New Orleans) 1 Sept. 2/1 Pompanos were plentiful, and sparkling hock flew about. 1851A. O. Hall Manhattaner in New Orleans 161 We forgot our military sighings in the discussion..of the momentous question whether it was orthodox to eat rum-omelette with ‘pompano’-fish. 1863Russell Diary North & South I. 340 The best dish was, unquestionably, the pompinoe, an odd fish, something like an unusually ugly John Dory. 1883‘Mark Twain’ Life on Mississippi xliv. 445 We had dinner [in New Orleans]..—the chief dish the renowned fish called pompano, delicious as the less criminal forms of sin. 1885Pall Mall G. 7 Mar. 5/1 Soft shell crabs, terrapin, canvas-back ducks, blue fish, and the pompono of New Orleans, are all wonderful delicacies. 1888Goode Amer. Fishes 198 The Pompano..is not an angler's fish. 1891H. W. V. Stuart Adv. Forests S. Amer. 138 Another excellent fish was the pompono, several of which jumped on board. 1892Stevenson & Osbourne Wrecker xix. 289 There we sat..eating pompino and drinking iced champagne. 1931[see carangid a. and n.]. 1965A. J. McClane Standard Fishing Encycl. 693/2 Pompano cookery is an art in Florida and Louisiana. 1971P. Crampton tr. Heyerdahl's Ra Expeditions ix. 198 A fat little pampano fish..waggled its tail. Ibid. xi. 297 We had pampano among the pilot fish underneath us. 1973New Yorker 17 Feb. 30/2 Hundreds of red snappers, Carolina mullets,..pompano, Palm Beach mackerels, and others,..lie in neat rows on a bed of shaved ice. 1977Time 19 Dec. 42/2 Newly appreciated..are such home-grown marvels as Long Island duckling,..Chesapeake oysters, Gulf shrimp and pompano, [etc.].
2. pompano-shell. A bivalve shell of the genus Donax; a species of wedge-shell, found on the coast of Florida.
(Said to be so called because eaten by the pompano.)
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