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- noun Plural form of
patronizer .
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At the 1874 meeting of the Vegetarian Society, one speaker used terms like "blood-lappers" and "patronizers of slaughter-houses" to refer to those who ate meat.
Archive 2008-06-01 2008
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At the 1874 meeting of the Vegetarian Society, one speaker used terms like "blood-lappers" and "patronizers of slaughter-houses" to refer to those who ate meat.
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And I think that makes me a heckuva more educated voter than most of the patronizers I've come by.
Scout Opatut: Nobody Puts Baby, or Barack, in the Corner 2008
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The challenge for minorities is to reject the false prophets, the racial instigators, and the phony patronizers.
Who's Looking Out for You O'Reilly, Bill 2003
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Junkies are great patronizers of the violent cinema and their dialogue is faultless.
Puppet on a Chain MacLean, Alistair, 1922- 1969
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That's all one of those taxicab patronizers knows about traveling conditions in the country.
When Egypt Went Broke Holman Day 1900
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The large newspapers of both New York and the Pacific coast were ready patronizers of the express.
The Great Salt Lake Trail Henry Inman 1868
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And we hope the support of this meeting will be a rebuke to all slave-holders and slavery-patronizers, on the other side of the Atlantic, whether
The story of the life of John Anderson : the fugitive slave ed. 1863
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I found the science much in advance in Cromarty, especially among the ladies, -- its great patronizers and illustrators everywhere, -- and, in not a few localities, extensive contributors to its hoards of fact.
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Some of the invective long-suffering Haitians have elicited from readers of my columns would make these armchair patronizers seem like advocates for them.
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