Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who sells slops, or ready-made clothes, especially cheap and common clothes: used when such clothes were of indifferent quality.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who sells slops, or ready-made clothes. See 4th slop, 3.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a dealer in cheap ready-made clothing
- n. a dealer in cheap ready-made clothing
Etymologies
- slop + seller (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The purser, Simon Cheeseparings -- that isn't his real name -- was a slopseller in Wapping, but outran his creditors and had to come to sea to escape from Newgate; and the doctor's a Scotchman whose name begins with Mac, and for brevity's sake Mac he is always called.”
“He had taken good care not to let the slopseller know of his wealth; indeed, that fact he kept locked in his own bosom, as he did his purse in a place in which no one was likely to discover it.”
“Coningsby's coat was made by Stultz; almost every fellow in the sixth form had his coats made by Stultz; yet Coningsby fancied that his own garment looked as if it had been furnished by some rustic slopseller.”
“A gem-man who often comes down with me says his father was a slopseller in Ratcliffe Highway, and afterwards marrying the widow of Admiral Hughes, a rich old West India nabob, he left this young gemman the bulk of his property, and a very worthy fellow he is: but we've another rich fellow that's rather notorious at Brighton, which we distinguish by the name of the _silver”
“Tell Mr Beaujou, the slopseller, to come here directly with some clothes for him.”
“Hither comes to me young Captain Beckford, the slopseller, and there presents me a little purse with gold in it, it being, as he told me, for his present to me, at the end of the last year.”
“So home, and late at my office, then home and there found a couple of state cups, very large, coming, I suppose, each to about L6 a piece, from Burrows the slopseller.”
“a couple of state cups, very large, coming, I suppose, each to about L6 a piece, from Burrows the slopseller.”
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