| 单词 | pedlar-man |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspedlar-man C1. General attributive and appositive, as pedlar-man, pedlar-principle, etc. ΚΠ 1551 King Edward VI Chron. & Polit. Papers (1966) (modernized text) 164 The Farmer..will be a Pedlar-Merchant. 1598 E. Guilpin Skialetheia sig. A3v To reade these pedler rimes. a1652 R. Brome Novella i. ii. l. 219, in Five New Playes (1653) I have heard of this rare Pedler-woman. 1665 R. Monsey Scarronides vii. 58 Away they hoof't it every one, With Pedlar Pack each back upon. 1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations I. iii. iv. 504 In pursuit of their own pedlar principle of turning a penny wherever a penny was to be got. View more context for this quotation 1825 E. Fitzball Pilot ii. iii. 27 Buy, buy,—poor pedlar woman, cast all adrift, an' please your Honours. 1842 W. M. Thackeray Sultan Stork in Wks. (1900) V. 739 An old pedlar-woman, who was displaying her wares. 1918 D. M. Wright Irish Heart 63 A pedlar man's come up the way With a pack of brooches and ribbons gay. 2001 Birmingham Evening Mail (Nexis) 12 Mar. 19 It was Ali Hakim, alias pedlar man David Deeley, who stole the show with his good-humoured ad-libs to the audience. < as lemmas |
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