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  • noun Plural form of pleasurer.

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Examples

  • Let us turn now, to another portion of the London population, whose recreations present about as strong a contrast as can well be conceived — we mean the Sunday pleasurers; and let us beg our readers to imagine themselves stationed by our side in some well – known rural

    Sketches by Boz 2007

  • Delicias, where we lingered our last to look at the pleasurers haunting them, we drove far across the wheat-fields where a ship-canal five miles long is cutting to rectify the curve of the

    Familiar Spanish Travels 2004

  • She welcomed the excuse to secede from the ranks of pleasurers, but even then she started up at every sound of wheels that might herald his approach.

    The Californians Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton 1902

  • But the pleasurers were as yet only upon the borders of the pandemonium, and Ford was torturing his ingenuity to devise some argument strong enough to turn back the threatened invasion.

    Empire Builders Francis Lynde 1893

  • Nor would it have helped matters much if he had known Kenneth's genuine distress when it transpired that the suggestion bade fair to result in precipitating a private car-load of pleasurers into the pandemonium of the grading-camps.

    Empire Builders Francis Lynde 1893

  • "We are negligible," she said, meaning the pleasurers.

    Empire Builders Francis Lynde 1893

  • The tremendous metropolis mocked with its millions the notion of nobody left in town because a few pleasurers had gone to the moors or the mountains or the shores.

    London Films William Dean Howells 1878

  • Towards the close of the season, on the withered grass, quite in the vicinity of those consecrated social closes, to which I am always returning with a snobbish fondness, I saw signs of the advance of the great weary army which would possess the pleasure-grounds of the town when the pleasurers had left it.

    London Films William Dean Howells 1878

  • Our day's pleasurers took it that the lady whose steady gaze had reduced them, when at lunch, to such a low ebb of shabbiness, was a regular boarder, at the least, in one of the beach hotels.

    Suburban Sketches William Dean Howells 1878

  • Upon my word, I should like to know what has become, in the other world, of those poor pleasurers of the past whose memory makes one so sad upon the scenes of their enjoyment here!

    Italian Journeys William Dean Howells 1878

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