Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who sells faucets.
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Examples
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You are ambitious for poor knaves caps and legs: you wear out a good wholesome forenoon in hearing a cause between an orange-wife and a fosset-seller, and then rejourn the controversy of three-pence to a second day of audience.
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You wear out a good wholesome forenoon in hearing a cause between an Orange-wife and a fosset-seller.
The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare Henry Nicholson Ellacombe 1868
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You are ambitious for poor knaves 'caps and legs: you wear out a good wholesome forenoon in hearing a cause between an orange wife and a fosset-seller; and then rejourn the controversy of three pence to a second day of audience.
Coriolanus 1607
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You are ambitious for poor knaves’ caps and legs: you wear out a good wholesome forenoon in hearing a cause between an orange wife and a fosset-seller; and then rejourn the controversy of three pence to a second day of audience.
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