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
After all, the death of that poor costermonger, Lanky Lane, was of greater public interest than the representatives of the Press anticipated.
From The Seven Secrets by William Le Queux
I miss almost all the women who were there an hour ago, and most of the costermonger class have disappeared, though a few still linger on.
From Days and Nights in London or, Studies in Black and Gray by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie
