costermonger

Example Sentences

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“You’re looking especially lovely today, sweetheart,” shouts James Corden’s importunate costermonger from his market stall during The Lady in the Van.

From The Guardian • Nov. 5, 2015

"My granddad was a local costermonger," she says.

From BBC • Dec. 23, 2012

For all the royalty and high fashion, the day, as always, belonged to the cockney, the costermonger and the gypsy, swarming over the infield.

From Time Magazine Archive

I miss almost all the women who were there an hour ago, and most of the costermonger class have disappeared, though a few still linger on. 

From Days and Nights in London or, Studies in Black and Gray by Ritchie, J. Ewing (James Ewing)

All this may be very true; but Bill Smith, the costermonger, is a noisy vulgar fellow; therefore must be put down.

From A History of the Cries of London Ancient and Modern by Hindley, Charles