Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Formella

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

FORMEL'LA. Diminutive of FORMA. Either a small mould for giving an artificial and fanciful form to fish when dressed up for dinner, or probably a mould in the shape of a fish, like the annexed specimen (Formella/1.1), from an original found in Pompeii. Apic. ix. 13.

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