costermonger
Example Sentences
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“You’re looking especially lovely today, sweetheart,” shouts James Corden’s importunate costermonger from his market stall during The Lady in the Van.
From The Guardian • Nov. 5, 2015
"My granddad was a local costermonger," she says.
From BBC • Dec. 23, 2012
For all the royalty and high fashion, the day, as always, belonged to the cockney, the costermonger and the gypsy, swarming over the infield.
From Time Magazine Archive
After all, the death of that poor costermonger, Lanky Lane, was of greater public interest than the representatives of the Press anticipated.
From The Seven Secrets by Le Queux, William
His name is Lane—a costermonger, known as Lanky Lane.
From The Seven Secrets by Le Queux, William
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
