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Definition of Palterers
1. palterer [n] - See also: palterer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Palterers
Literary usage of Palterers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of the United Netherlands, from the Death of William the Silent to by John Lothrop Motley (1900)
"flattering, now that the well-known voice which had so often silenced the Flemish
palterers and intriguers was forever hushed. ..."
2. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1888)
"Ask, but expect no answer more exact Than blundering palterers with truth and
fact Hange in their ..."
3. The Harleian Miscellany: Or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and by William Oldys, John Malham (1809)
"If friends be chosen by election and privy liking, these open palterers may go
whistle ; for they neither know the bounds of a good mind, ..."
4. The Gentleman's Magazine (1892)
"The Poet, I am sorry to say, is one of these palterers. Three several times he
went in the other afternoon, whilst I sat upon the bridge and ..."
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