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sardine

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  • n  small fatty fish usually canned
  • n  any of various small edible herring or related food fishes frequently canned
  • n  a deep orange-red variety of chalcedony
  • n  small fishes found in great schools along coasts of Europe; smaller and rounder than herring

  • Scowling and cursing, the captains of 130 big French fishing smacks put to sea at Douarnenez last week, every smack loaded to the gunwales with sardines.
  • The loss of the sardine industry, they say, is more than counterbalanced by the new fishing industry on Lake Nasser, which covers 2,000 square miles behind the dam.
  • To Englishmen, the sardine is a pilchard (Sardina pilchardus), poor cousin of the English Herrings.
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    My Motown special has heart. I've long resisted participating in celebrity special dishes because I knew it could get weird. And sure enough, it was awkward to hear my name recited as a June special at American Sardine Bar, as in, "we're featuring the
    June 21, 2013 - The Philadelphia Inquirer
  • Fund raise to the finish
    There's nothing like the taste of a sardine that's been simmering under the sun for a few hours.
    June 16, 2013 - Newark Advocate

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