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
But young potato-peelings, so called from his father's vocation of costermonger, defended himself with indignation.
From When Ghost Meets Ghost by De Morgan, William Frend
The plaintiff was a costermonger and the defendant a costermonger; they conducted the case in person.
From Law and Laughter by Morton, George A. (George Alexander)
