poulterer's

In the remake of A Christmas Carol young Douglas could easily play the boy who fetches Bob Cratchit's turkey from the poulterer's.

Sketch: What if the bankers were on benefits? Michael White 2010

From this shop she went to a butcher's, a grocer's, and a poulterer's, till at last the porter exclaimed in despair, "My good lady, if you had only told me you were going to buy enough provisions to stock a town, I would have brought a horse, or rather a camel."

Still Separate & Unequal Fredrickson, George M. 2005

Only, they hadn't been able to unclench the little sphincter or whatever kept the tail folded up, and the plumes moreover had become sadly draggled on the ride from the poulterer's, so they had taken the tail apart and stuck the remaining feathers on a big pasteboard fan, and painted in the missing ones.

In the Garden of Iden 1997

Elsewhere, some of the internees tried to lower the boats themselves and within a few minutes, in Duxberry's graphic phrase, half a dozen of them were hanging on one fall like turkeys outside a poulterer's shop.

The Lonely Sea MacLean, Alistair, 1922- 1985

They left Nurse carefully inspecting fat geese in a poulterer's stall and started to explore.

The Spanish Chest Edna Adelaide Brown

The pillars of stacked ware flanking the fronts of pottery shops were in a constant state of wreckage and reconstruction; the stalls of fruiterers perfumed the air with crushed and over-ripe produce; litters with dark-eyed occupants and fan-bearing attendants stood before the doorways of lapidaries and booths of stuffs; venders of images, unguents, trinkets and wines strove to outcry one another or the poulterer's squawking stall.

The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt Elizabeth Miller

And lastly I can see the final halt at the poulterer's, as we purchase the grouse to fill our bags before the journeying home.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, July 30, 1892 Various

A little consideration, and a visit to the nearest poulterer's shop, would have prevented such a palpable error.

Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy. Montagu Browne

"Do you know the poulterer's, in the next street but one, at the corner?"

Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6 Charles Herbert Sylvester

The hand in which he wrote the address was not a steady one, but write it he did, somehow, and went downstairs to open the street door, ready for the coming of the poulterer's man.

Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6 Charles Herbert Sylvester