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
“And then he’ll rail like a rude costermonger, That schoolboys had cozened of his apple, As loud and senseless.”
From A History of the Cries of London Ancient and Modern by Charles Hindley
As I went off the ground I was struck with the clever way in which a London costermonger will turn anything and everything to account.
From Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis by Charles Maurice Davies
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