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
Once more the warders pushed Fandor before them, as well as the poor costermonger: they were driven into a dark corridor on to which a row of cells opened.
From Messengers of Evil Being a Further Account of the Lures and Devices of Fantômas by Pierre Souvestre
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
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