merchant
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Jo McKenzie is the owner of the Fish Hoose fish merchant in Arbroath.
From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026
Dove is the bound-foot daughter of an imperial scholar who came to the city to become one of the locked-away wives of a decades-older merchant.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026
His father-in-law was a merchant who received the tea that provoked the Boston Tea Party in 1773.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026
Once the Revolutionary War commenced, and for years after, America’s merchant marine fleet was targeted by pirates of every stripe.
From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026
The train station smelled like roasting pistachios from the old Turkish merchant outside, and burnt rubber from the train braking.
From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri
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