surmullet

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

From French surmulet, from Middle French sormulet, from sor (“reddish brown”) + mulet (“mullet”).

It was composed of turtle soup made of the most delicate hawksbills, of a surmullet served with puff paste (the liver of which, prepared by itself, was most delicious), and fillets of the emperor-holocanthus, the savour of which seemed to me superior even to salmon. — Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea, Jules Verne
Seius gave for the nightingale the command of a quantity of labour and subsistence, equal to what £ 66:13: 4d. would purchase in the present times; and Asinius Celer gave for a surmullet the command of a quantity equal to what £ 88:17: 9d. would purchase. — An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith

goatfish, red mullet, Mullus surmuletus

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