costermonger
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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
Why, a costermonger with his donkey might as well talk of his 'steed.'
From Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II by Edmund Downey
The plaintiff was a costermonger and the defendant a costermonger; they conducted the case in person.
From Law and Laughter by George A. (George Alexander) Morton
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