tallow-chandlern.
One whose trade is to make or sell tallow candles.
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society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of candles
chandler1389
tallow-chandler1406
wax-chandler1418
tallower1882
the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > candle > [noun] > one who makes or sells
chandler1389
wax-maker14..
tallow-chandler1406
wax-chandler1418
candle-maker1611
candle-wright1766
maggot-boiler1788
1406 Close Roll 7 Hen. IV b Simon atte Holke, Talogh~chaundeler.
1431 Patent Roll, 9 Henry VI 11 June (P.R.O.: C 66/429) m. 25 Henricus Pollard Ciuis & Talghchaundeler London.
?1518 Cocke Lorelles Bote sig. B.vv Talowe chaundelers, hostelers, and glouers.
1683 T. Tryon Way to Health 595 Neither does a Tallow-Chandler smell those horrible Scents and pernicious Fumes that old Tallow sends forth when it is melted.
1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1780 II. 335 [Ld. Granville:] A letter, expressed in terms not good enough for a tallow-chandler to have used.
1876 L. Stephen Hist. Eng. Thought 18th Cent. I. iii. v. 163 He was early apprenticed to a tallow-chandler.
Derivatives
tallow-ˈchandlering n.
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society > trade and finance > selling > selling or sale of specific things > [noun] > tallow
tallow-chandlery1815
tallow-chandlering1837
tallow-chandling1876
1837–8 W. M. Thackeray Yellowplush Corr. i Her father being a bankrup in the tallow-chandlering way.
tallow-ˈchandling n. (cf. market gardening n.) the operation or business of a tallow-chandler.
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society > trade and finance > selling > selling or sale of specific things > [noun] > tallow
tallow-chandlery1815
tallow-chandlering1837
tallow-chandling1876
1876 L. Stephen Hist. Eng. Thought 18th Cent. I. iii. v. 163 The exception to his tallow-chandling was a short residence with Sir Joseph.
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