Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One whose business is the sale of poultry, and often also of hares, game, etc., for the table.
- noun Formerly, in England, an officer of the king's household who had supervision of the poultry.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who deals in poultry.
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- noun A dealer in
poultry .
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- noun a dealer in poultry and poultry products
Etymologies
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Examples
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The weekly market there had stalls of every description—lace makers with their intricate wares, whip makers and other purveyors of fine leather, a poulterer, a farmer with fat piglets to sell.
A Hellion in Her Bed Sabrina Jeffries 2010
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The weekly market there had stalls of every description—lace makers with their intricate wares, whip makers and other purveyors of fine leather, a poulterer, a farmer with fat piglets to sell.
A Hellion in Her Bed Sabrina Jeffries 2010
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The weekly market there had stalls of every description—lace makers with their intricate wares, whip makers and other purveyors of fine leather, a poulterer, a farmer with fat piglets to sell.
A Hellion in Her Bed Sabrina Jeffries 2010
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A lame one in his lofty tricks; he sleeps a-horseback, like a poulterer.
The White Devil 2007
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Mrs. Lee is an energetic woman in her forties with a handsome face that animates when she talks about her passion: the Cheong Fatt Tze Mansion, which she bought ten years ago in a state near rubble, with 33 people squatting in its 38 rooms, including a poulterer with his roosters, a school teacher, a laundress, rickshaw drivers, waiters and others in a raggedy collection of freeloaders.
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A lame one in his lofty tricks; he sleeps a-horseback, like a poulterer.
The White Devil 2007
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Also foie de volaille = chicken liver le volailler la volaillère = dealer in poultry and poultry products, poulterer
Words in a French Life Kristin Espinasse 2007
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Go to doss with the poulterer, you understand, and shake up with the milch-mand.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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And indeed it was by great accident that he himself had passed through that field, in order to lay wires for hares, with which he was to supply a poulterer at Bath the next morning.
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Not only because the air is fine, and the puddles and the dabblings of extraordinary merit, and the wind fluffs up their pretty feathers while alive, as the eloquent poulterer by-and-by will do; but because they have really distinguished birth, and adventurous, chivalrous, and bright blue
Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004
yarb commented on the word poulterer
I ran over the account with a hasty glance; for it extended to fifteen or twenty pages. Mercy on us! The poulterers' shops must have been exhausted, while I was in too weak a state to take sustenance! There must have been at least twelve pistoles stewed down into broths.
- Lesage, The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane, tr. Smollett, bk 7 ch. 16
October 2, 2008