slopseller
IPA: sɫˈɑpsʌɫɝ
noun
- (dated) One who sells slops, or ready-made clothes.
slop-seller
IPA: sɫˈɑpsˈɛɫɝ
noun
- a dealer in cheap ready-made clothing
Examples of "slopseller" in Sentences
- A slopseller was an English merchant who sold slops or rough working dress.
- Tell Mr Beaujou, the slopseller, to come here directly with some clothes for him.
- So home, and late at my office, then home and there found a couple of state cups, very large, coming, I suppose, each to about L6 a piece, from Burrows the slopseller.
- Hither comes to me young Captain Beckford, the slopseller, and there presents me a little purse with gold in it, it being, as he told me, for his present to me, at the end of the last year.
- He had taken good care not to let the slopseller know of his wealth; indeed, that fact he kept locked in his own bosom, as he did his purse in a place in which no one was likely to discover it.
- Coningsby's coat was made by Stultz; almost every fellow in the sixth form had his coats made by Stultz; yet Coningsby fancied that his own garment looked as if it had been furnished by some rustic slopseller.
- The purser, Simon Cheeseparings -- that isn't his real name -- was a slopseller in Wapping, but outran his creditors and had to come to sea to escape from Newgate; and the doctor's a Scotchman whose name begins with Mac, and for brevity's sake Mac he is always called.
- A gem-man who often comes down with me says his father was a slopseller in Ratcliffe Highway, and afterwards marrying the widow of Admiral Hughes, a rich old West India nabob, he left this young gemman the bulk of his property, and a very worthy fellow he is: but we've another rich fellow that's rather notorious at Brighton, which we distinguish by the name of the _silver
Examples of "slop-seller" in Sentences
- DOILEY _ (Abraham) _, a citizen and retired slop-seller.
- "Pantry!" cries the old slop-seller; "you can't impose upon me.
- _Elizabeth Doiley_, daughter of the old slop-seller, in love with
- a wine merchant, or a slop-seller, come to ask permission to serve the ship.
- I paid him no attention, supposing him to be a wine-merchant or a slop-seller come to ask permission to serve the ship.
- Sweating in the cheap clothes trade was already attracting the notice of reformers, and Punch was on the warpath when a Jew slop-seller prosecuted a poor widow with two children for pawning articles which she had to make up for him.
- Our young friends care about as much for Saint George as they do for Saint Thomas Aquinas; they would think twice before they permitted themselves to be poked at with an unbuttoned foil; and as for the deeds of their ancestors, a good many of them would have considerable difficulty in establishing their descent even from a creditable slop-seller -- "the founder of our family" -- in the reign of