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Definition of Greengroceries
1. greengrocery [n] - See also: greengrocery
Lexicographical Neighbors of Greengroceries
Literary usage of Greengroceries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Works by Manuel Márquez Sterling, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leslie Stephen, Louise Stanage (1901)
"... himself had to supply the greengroceries. The bill for servants' porter at
the Fortune of War public-house is a curiosity in the chronicles of beer. ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1907)
"She recalled the strange behavior of the Ealing greengroceries; some of them,
carrots for instance, or turnips or potatoes, varied not between counter and ..."
3. Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain by John Ruskin (1877)
"Cyrus, first suppose, only over greengroceries—as above recommended, in these
gardens of yours, for which yesterday, 11 th April, I sent our Trustees word ..."
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