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- noun Plural form of currier.
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Examples
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The artisans issued a startling public challenge to the price control system in July, a sweeping statement of market principles that bore the rhetorical stamp of Pelatiah Webster, but was subscribed by a committee of tanners, curriers, and cordwainers.
Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010
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The artisans issued a startling public challenge to the price control system in July, a sweeping statement of market principles that bore the rhetorical stamp of Pelatiah Webster, but was subscribed by a committee of tanners, curriers, and cordwainers.
Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010
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JEFFREY SCHLOESSER, 101 ST AIRBORNE DIVISION: They have areas to sleep and where they can eat, and where they may have contacts and curriers to come to deliver money.
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Yet even if we add neatherds, shepherds, and other herdsmen, in order that our husbandmen may have oxen to plough with, and builders as well as husbandmen may have draught cattle, and curriers and weavers fleeces and hides — still our State will not be very large.
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New York, were people who worked at CNN 20 years ago, the guys who managed to get the stuff and had other -- the other networks would send people over, motorcycle curriers over, to pick up their -- their stash from -- from CNN.
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The tanners and curriers, with the proper vats, etc., tanned and dressed the skins as well for upper as for lower leather to the full amount of the consumption of the estate, and the shoemakers made them into shoes for the negroes.
George Washington: Farmer Paul Leland Haworth
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The quantity of mucilage which it contains precludes it from the use of dyers; but, as it furnishes nearly 50 per cent. of tannin, it is largely used by curriers.
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The curriers told him, that they saw him come out in that condition at the gate of the apartment of the grand vizier's lady, which opened into their street; upon which the justice ordered unfortunate Backbarah to have an hundred blows with a cane on the soles of his feet, and sent him out of the town, with orders never to return again.
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As practical men, having a long and wide experience of the leather trade in Australia, we are certain that there are many tanners and curriers carrying on business in remote townships of the colonies to whom such a manual of practical recipes will be invaluable ....
The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student Franklin Beech
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His woods furnished timber and plank for the carpenters and coopers, and charcoal for the blacksmith; his cattle killed for his own consumption and for sale, supplied skins for the tanners, curriers, and shoemakers; and his sheep gave wool and his fields produced cotton and flax for the weavers and spinners, and his own orchards fruit for the distillers.
George Washington: Farmer Paul Leland Haworth
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