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After a minute marked by tense silence, two breams emerged from the hole.

From National Geographic • Mar. 16, 2018

Since arriving in the Solomon Islands, we have found biofluorescence in lineages in which it never has been reported before, including breams and flatheads.

From New York Times • Jul. 6, 2012

There was another fish like barbilles, and another like breams, headed like a delicate fish, called in Spain besugo, between red and gray.

From A Narrative of the expedition of Hernando de Soto into Florida published at Evora in 1557 by A Gentleman of Elvas [pseud.]

In the night while calm, we fished with hook and line, and caught good store of fish viz., snappers, breams, old-wives, and dog-fish. 

From Early Australian Voyages: Pelsart, Tasman, Dampier by Pinkerton, John

Immediately on coming to anchor we began to fish, and got abundance of that kind which the Portuguese call Pergosses, the French saders, and our men salt-water breams.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07 by Kerr, Robert