touter

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To-day he says that an emigration 'touter' has promised him gold and green forests if he will take a ticket for one of the Bremen line steamers.

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  1. One who goes about soliciting custom, as for an inn, a public conveyance, or a shop. If you have not been at Tunbridge, you may nevertheless have heard that here are a parcel of fellows, mean traders, whom they call touters, and their business touting—riding out miles to meet coaches and company coming hither, to beg their custom while here. S. Richardson, Correspondence, III. 316.

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  • I'm happy that the rosé revolution happened on the other hand, I'm less happy since I've been a touter of rose since day one, we can sell rose every year, and now everyone's got rose! —  Dr Vino's wine blog
  • Thorne said that Johnson had claimed that he had met Therese Rein, "a touter he met through a recruiting company", when she had been "recruiting ex-military for (private secutiry firm) Blackwater". —  Crikey » Canberra Calling
  • But as a former constituent, I can say that he's a pompous party-line touter who's politics are devious at best. —  CNN Political Ticker
  • 'Soapy-Sponge' would figure in the stable-yard, and 'Proverbial Philosophy' watch the trains as a touter. —  Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General
  • To-day he says that an emigration 'touter' has promised him gold and green forests if he will take a ticket for one of the Bremen line steamers. —  From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People
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