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- noun Plural form of
gilthead .
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Examples
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_Pámpanos_ is translated "giltheads," but the name is taken over into English as "pompano."
The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503 Various 1884
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We took also a large number of giltheads, about one and a half inches long, tasting like dorys; and flying fire-fish like submarine swallows, which, in dark nights, light alternately the air and water with their phosphorescent light. {2 sentences missing here}
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There passed by the greenish plates of glass the giltheads, the cackerels, and the sea roaches, clad in vivid silver with bands of gold on their sides.
Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel Vicente Blasco Ib����ez 1897
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