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- noun Plural form of
garreteer .
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Examples
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One advantage, however, from the new system must be conceded, and that is, that when an author waits in a great man's hall, or stands at his door, he will be pretty sure of being paid for it; which, in the case of your dangling garreteers, has never hitherto happened.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 479, March 5, 1831 Various
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To this place the Broome Street garreteers (so Mr. Holliday has told us) used to come on days of high prosperity when some cheque arrived from a publisher.
Pipefuls Christopher Morley 1923
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Let's be two jolly garreteers, up seven flights of stairs,
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