Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
ruddleman .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Someone who deals in
ruddle (red ochre )
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Examples
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Can anyone visit Dorset and not in some sense feel that he, too, is one of Thomas Hardy’s natives returning on a Can you drive through that country and not look for Eustacia Vye and Diggory Venn, the ruddleman, and Michael Hen-chard, the Mayor of Casterbridge?
TalkTalk E. L. Konigsburg 1995
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Can anyone visit Dorset and not in some sense feel that he, too, is one of Thomas Hardy’s natives returning on a Can you drive through that country and not look for Eustacia Vye and Diggory Venn, the ruddleman, and Michael Hen-chard, the Mayor of Casterbridge?
TalkTalk E. L. Konigsburg 1995
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