Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One whose business is the sale of poultry, and often also of hares, game, etc., for the table.
- n. Formerly, in England, an officer of the king's household who had supervision of the poultry.
Wiktionary
- n. A dealer in poultry.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who deals in poultry.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a dealer in poultry and poultry products
Etymologies
- Middle English, from Old French pouletier, from poulet ("fowl"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“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 lame one in his lofty tricks; he sleeps a-horseback, like a poulterer.”
“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.”
“Also foie de volaille = chicken liver le volailler la volaillère = dealer in poultry and poultry products, poulterer”
“Go to doss with the poulterer, you understand, and shake up with the milch-mand.”
“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.”
“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”
“The ‘Prince’ is George Fitzroy, son of Charles II by the Duchess of Cleveland, who was created Duke of Northumberland and married Catherine, daughter of Robert Wheatley, a poulterer, of”
“The person implicated in the charge against Hoyle seems to have been a poulterer. cf.”
“If he was shooting birds and selling them to a poulterer you wouldn't think twice cause it's nature's way, killing and eating.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘poulterer’.
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Clarissa, Or, The History of a Young ...
These words are from Samuel Richardson's novel Clarissa, Or, The History of a Young Lady, 1747-48
adumbrate, virago, varlet, rencounter, akimbo, palliate, amanuensis, amok, equipage, cully, se'ennight, resentments and 560 more...
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Gil Blas
Interesting words and usages from Smollett's 1749 translation of Lesage's L'Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane
reck, durance, rhodomontade, hangdog, trap, lustre, pin, boggle, dandle, birthday suit, colic, gripes and 238 more...
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Trades Featured in R. Campbell's The ...
Hey kids! What do YOU want to be when you grow up?!
Reprint edition, Devon: Latimer Trend & Co., Ltd., 1969. Full original citation (you'd better grab a drink and sit down) is:
...woollen draper, wood monger, wood cutter, wine cooper, woolsted man, wool card maker, wool comber, wool stapler, wire drawer, whalebone-man, whip maker, weaver and 343 more...
Tweets
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yarb 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 Oct 2, 2008