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Hosier

noun
1.
A tradesman who sells hosiery and (in England) knitwear.





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... prophets; and, in the Lucifer of the same author, the subject is grossly scandalised by this haughty spirit becoming stupidly in love with Eve, and it is for her he causes the rebellion of the evil angels, and the fall of our first parents. Poor Vondel kept a hosier's shop, which he left to the care of his wife, while he indulged his poetical genius. His stocking-shop failed, and his poems produced him more chagrin than glory; for in Holland, even a patriotic poet, if a bankrupt, would, no doubt, be accounted by his ...
— Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3) • Isaac D'Israeli


Words linked to "Hosier" :   shopkeeper, tradesman, market keeper, storekeeper


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