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单词 poulterer
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poulterern.

Brit. /ˈpəʊlt(ə)rə/, U.S. /ˈpoʊltərər/
Forms: 1500s 1600s poultrer, 1500s 1700s pulterer, 1600s polterer, 1600s powlterer, 1600s– poulterer.
Origin: Probably formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: poultry n., -er suffix1.
Etymology: Probably < poultry n. (compare forms at that entry) + -er suffix1, after e.g. fruiterer n.; compare -er suffix1 3. Compare earlier poulter n.With poulterer's measure n. at Compounds compare earlier poulter's measure n. at poulter n. Compounds 2.
A person whose business is the sale of poultry, eggs, and game; = poulter n. Poulterers' Company, Company of Poulterers: = Poulters' Company at poulter n. 1.
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society > occupation and work > business affairs > a business or company > [noun] > companies involved in specific business
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poulterer1534
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bus line1843
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poulter1884
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society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of provisions > seller of poultry or game
poultera1400
poulterer1534
poultryman1538
turkey-merchant1699
rabbit-o1902
1534 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 126 The pulterers nor other freemen of the Towne.
1587 J. Bridges Def. Govt. Church of Eng. vi. 493 The Priestes in our sauiour Christes time, suffered the exchaungers of money, Grasiers, and Pulterers to make a burse or shambles, and a poultrie.
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Pollaiuolo..a poultrer. Pollaitraro..a poultrer. Pollastriera, a woman poultrer.
1643 R. Baker Chron. Kings of Eng. ii. 14 Counterfeiting himselfe a Poulterer, to sell certain foule which hee had gotten.
1684 London Gaz. No. 1955/4 Apprentice to Mr. Bayly, his Royal Highness's Polterer..in the Pall-Mall.
1724 J. Trenchard & T. Gordon Cato's Lett. III. 170 The Gentlemen through England have had their Estates ransacked..to put Fishmongers and Poulterers Wives..in Laces and Jewels.
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones II. vi. xii. 311 He himself had passed through that Field, in order to lay Wires for Hares, with which he was to supply a Poulterer at Bath the next Morning. View more context for this quotation
1789 H. L. Piozzi Observ. Journey France II. 27 Poulterers hang up their animals in the feathers.
1812 ‘P. Pindar’ Anticipation 14 (note) Alluding to the Fishmongers' and Poulterers' Company.
1857 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 20 Dec. in Eng. Notebks. (1997) II. vii. 450 An abundance of game at the poulterers.
1921 V. Woolf Unwritten Novel in Monday or Tuesday 42 My skin, too, felt like the damp chicken's skin in the poulterer's shop window.
1995 Methodist Recorder 3 Aug. 2/3 Mr Trudgian has been elected as a freeman of the Worshipful Company of Poulterers, one of London's ancient City Guilds which was responsible for trade in poultry and eggs from the year 1300.

Compounds

poulterer's measure n. historical and rare = poulter's measure n. at poulter n. Compounds 2.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > metre > [noun] > variety of > poulter's measure
poulter's measure1575
short metre1718
poulterer's measure1841
1841 R. G. Latham Eng. Lang. v. 382 Poulterer's Measure,—Alexandrines and Service Measures alternately. Found in the poetry of Henry the Eighth's time.
1957 N. Frye Anat. Crit. 263 There were some comparative failures, such as poulterer's measure.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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