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Lemon Soles

which abound on the south coast of England and about Marseilles. Lemon is a corruption of the French limande, a dab or flat-fish. The “flounder-sole.” There are several varieties. (Latin lima, mud.)

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.