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POULTERER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does poulterer mean?
• POULTERER (noun)
The noun POULTERER has 1 sense:
1. a dealer in poultry and poultry products
Familiarity information: POULTERER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A dealer in poultry and poultry products
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
poulterer; poultryman
Hypernyms ("poulterer" is a kind of...):
merchandiser; merchant (a businessperson engaged in retail trade)
Context examples
“Commend me to the nurseryman and the poulterer.”
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Grant to the deanery of Westminster or St. Paul's, and I should be as glad of your nurseryman and poulterer as you could be.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Thank you; but there is no escaping these little vexations, Mary, live where we may; and when you are settled in town and I come to see you, I dare say I shall find you with yours, in spite of the nurseryman and the poulterer, perhaps on their very account.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
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