| 单词 | lottery barber |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslottery barber b. attributive, designating a tradesman or business offering a lottery ticket as part of each purchase, as lottery barber, lottery eating-house, lottery tailor, etc. Now rare (historical after 18th cent.). ΚΠ 1777 Scots Mag. Oct. 527/2 The ingenious set of Lottery Merchants, viz. Lottery Magazine Proprietors, Lottery Taylors, Lottery Staymakers..Lottery Barbers, where a man, for being shaved, and paying three pence, may stand a chance of getting ten pounds. 1865 F. Martin Stories Banks & Bankers xiv. 146 In 1772, there were lottery tailors, lottery hatters,..lottery eating-houses—where a fellow had a chance of getting a meal and fifty pounds for sixpence—lottery oyster stalls,..and a hundred similar institutions. 1907 Pearson's Mag. Sept. 326/2 There came into being..lottery tea-merchants, lottery tobacco shops, lottery bakers, lottery barbers, and for that matter lottery shoe-blacks, in whose shops, when you paid three pence for a ‘shine’, you ran a pleasant risk of drawing ten pounds as a prize. < as lemmas |
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