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codfish aristocracy

codfish aristocracy noun: new-money families who gained their wealth from cod fisheries.

Noun

codfish aristocracy (countable and uncountable, plural codfish aristocracies)

  1. (New-England) New-money families who gained their wealth from cod fisheries.
    • But the war [the American Civil War] had also industrialized northern economies, and New England, a key player in the American industrial revolution, became much less dependent on its fisheries. The old merchant families moved their money into industry. The term codfish aristocracy was now used by...1997, Mark Kurlansky, “Chapter 6: A Cod War Heard 'Round the World”, in Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World, Walker, →ISBN

Forms of codfish aristocracy

pluralcodfish aristocracies

Questions about codfish aristocracy

What does codfish aristocracy mean?
Codfish aristocracy means new-money families who gained their wealth from cod fisheries.
What part of speech is codfish aristocracy?
Codfish aristocracy is a noun.
What is the plural of codfish aristocracy?
The plural of codfish aristocracy is codfish aristocracies.

Words near codfish aristocracy in the dictionary

  1. codework
  2. codex
  3. codexes
  4. codfish
  5. codfish aristocracies
  6. codfish aristocracy
  7. codfisher
  8. codfisheries
  9. codfisherman
  10. codfishermen
  11. codfishers

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