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
The bull-dog tenacity permeated all classes; it was shared by the peer, the country squire, the small farmer, the tradesman and the artizan; it was voiced by the Prime Minister, and echoed by the costermonger.
From A Cabinet Secret by Guy Newell Boothby
The speaker was the wife of a costermonger who lived in a neighbouring court.
From The Man with the Book or, The Bible Among the People. by John Matthias Weylland
