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单词 pomfret
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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024
pom•fret  (pomfrit, pum-),USA pronunciation n., pl. (esp. collectively) -fret,  (esp. referring to two or more kinds or species) -frets. 
  1. Fishany of several scombroid fishes of the family Bramidae, found in the North Atlantic and Pacific.
  2. Fishany of several East Indian stromateid fishes, esp. Stromateoides argenteus, valued as food.
  • 1720–30; earlier pamplee, pamflet, pomphlet; compare French pample, Portuguese pampo

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
pomfret /ˈpʌmfrɪt ˈpɒm-/, pomfret-cake n
  1. a small black rounded confection of liquorice
    Also called: Pontefract cake
Etymology: 19th Century: from Pomfret, earlier form of Pontefract, where the cake was originally made
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