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- noun Plural form of
pargeter .
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They were probably shy of my middle-class ness for I had noticed by that time that there were no professional people in the village: agricultural labourers, mechanics, shop workers and cleaners who went to their jobs elsewhere plumbers, electricians, builders, thatchers and pargeters, a hairdresser and, because even there modern life intruded, a computer technician, but no one who worked otherwise than with his or her hands.
Piranha to Scurfy & Other Stories Rendell, Ruth 2000
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