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 first to pass out was the costermonger.
From Messengers of Evil Being a Further Account of the Lures and Devices of Fantômas by Pierre Souvestre
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
