Plural of bream, referring to multiple freshwater fish with flat bodies, or the third-person singular verb form of the cleaning process.
From Old English 'bræme,' likely from Proto-Germanic root. The fish was named for its flat, compressed body shape that resembles a disc when viewed from above.
Bream have inspired fishing traditions for over a thousand years—they're so popular in European lakes that entire fishing cultures developed around their seasonal movements, with fishermen passing down techniques through generations.
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