Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The commodities dealt in by a cheesemonger.
- noun The shop or store in which such commodities are dealt in.
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Examples
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Mr. Tuggs attended to the grocery department; Mrs. Tuggs to the cheesemongery; and Miss Tuggs to her education.
Sketches by Boz 2007
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He assured me, however, that the practice of astrology was as rife as ever in London at this moment, and that businesses in that line were bought and sold for sterling coin of the realm, just as though they had been "corner" publics, or "snug concerns" in the cheesemongery line.
Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis Charles Maurice Davies 1869
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Mr. Tuggs attended to the grocery department; Mr.. Tuggs to the cheesemongery; and Miss Tuggs to her education.
Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people Charles Dickens 1841
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Charcoal, Cheesemongery, &c. The proximity of charcoal and cheesemongery, looks rather whimsical.
Anecdotes and Observations, Reflections and Critical Remarks 1824
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