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  • noun Plural form of poulterer.

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Examples

  • The butchers, poulterers, and fishmongers occupied a more satisfactorily enclosed avenue of shops adjacent to the market proper, extending at right angles to Commercial Road.

    The Market 2009

  • The butchers, poulterers, and fishmongers occupied a more satisfactorily enclosed avenue of shops adjacent to the market proper, extending at right angles to Commercial Road.

    Archive 2009-08-01 2009

  • They looked, thought Dalgliesh, Uke two poulterers expertly assessing the qualities of a dead chicken.

    She Closed Her Eyes 2010

  • Is that the sound of poulterers seeking to make laughing-stock cubes from the remains of this shrivelled-up frozen fowl?

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2007

  • To save trouble, a book will be kept where butchers, poulterers, fishmongers, &c. may inscribe their names in order, taking it by turns to supply the trial-table.

    The Fitz-Boodle Papers 2006

  • Fruiterers, market-men, as butchers and poulterers.

    The Fitz-Boodle Papers 2006

  • This free service to pundits does not cover research into why sixteenth-century poulterers did this, but the German for cuckold originally meant “capon.”

    No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

  • This free service to pundits does not cover research into why sixteenth-century poulterers did this, but the German for cuckold originally meant “capon.”

    No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

  • This free service to pundits does not cover research into why sixteenth-century poulterers did this, but the German for cuckold originally meant “capon.”

    No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

  • Their fowls are not like those plumped for sale by the poulterers of London, but they are as good as other places commonly afford, except that the geese, by feeding in the sea, have universally a fishy rankness.

    A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland 2003

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