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  • noun Plural form of touter.

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Examples

  • “Here are a parcel of fellows,” wrote Samuel Richardson, “mean traders, whom they call touters and their business touting … riding out miles to meet coaches … to beg their custom while here.”

    The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004

  • “Here are a parcel of fellows,” wrote Samuel Richardson, “mean traders, whom they call touters and their business touting … riding out miles to meet coaches … to beg their custom while here.”

    The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004

  • Tunbridge, you may nevertheless have heard that here are a parcel of fellows, mean traders, whom they call touters, and their business, touting -- riding out miles to meet coaches and company coming hither, to beg their custom while here. "

    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 383, August 1, 1829 Various

  • All of you has-beens and "you're risking American lives" touters should try. for once, to back THIS administration and maybe they can get the job done!!!

    Gingrich: 'Time to Know, to Profile, and to Discriminate' 2009

  • For me, the oil spill is a symptom not merely of political choices -- touters of "drill, baby, drill" versus environmentalists -- but one of spiritual disconnection.

    Wes Isley: A Spiritual Response to the Gulf Oil Spill 2010

  • For me, the oil spill is a symptom not merely of political choices -- touters of "drill, baby, drill" versus environmentalists -- but one of spiritual disconnection.

    Wes Isley: A Spiritual Response to the Gulf Oil Spill 2010

  • We all know it was touted around to everyone, and that the motives for the touters and buyers don't make them pure.

    OPEN THREAD.. 2009

  • Unfortunately for NCLB-touters, raising test scores and raising student learning are not the same thing, as Bob Herbert discusses in his New York Times column, "High Stakes Flimflam."

    Dan Brown: Bob Herbert Gets High-Stakes Testing Right 2008

  • This brings him to the fourth place, in a state of mere idiotcy; and when he is, in the fourth place, cast out at a little door into a howling wilderness of touters, he becomes

    Reprinted Pieces 2007

  • There were lodging-touters of every grade of dishonesty, and men with large placards were hurrying among the crowd, offering “palace” steamboats and “lightning express” trains, to whirl them at nominal rates to the Elysian Fields of the Far West.

    The Englishwoman in America 2007

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