Ormers

He carried on his head, as a fishwife carries a tray of ormers, a basket full of flagons of muscadella; and he did not lower the basket when he was shown into the room where the Seigneur of ❋ Gilbert Parker (1897)

Rolling a piece of spiced meat in his hand, he stuffed it into his mouth and chewed till the grease came out of his eyes, and took eagerly from a servant a flagon of malmsey and a dish of ormers. ❋ Gilbert Parker (1897)

II -- fishwives called the merits of their conger-eels and ormers; and the clatter of a thousand sabots made the Vier Marchi sound like a ship-builder's yard. ❋ Gilbert Parker (1897)

Pyramide -- the hospitable base of the statue of King George II -- fishwives called the merits of their conger-eels and ormers; and the clatter of a thousand sabots made the Vier Marchi sound like a ship-builder's yard. ❋ Gilbert Parker (1897)

He carried on his head, as a fishwife carries a tray of ormers, a basket full of flagons of muscadella; and he did not lower the basket when he was shown into the room where the Seigneur of Rozel was sitting before a trencher of spiced veal and a great pot of ale. ❋ Gilbert Parker (1897)

"Oh well, I found the mushrooms, coming home, and they were worth a pailful of ormers." ❋ John Oxenham (1896)

It might be a splendid place for fishing, and for ormers and queens and oysters, and he don't want any one else to find it out. " ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)