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Definition of Pushcarts
1. pushcart [n] - See also: pushcart
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pushcarts
Literary usage of Pushcarts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Promised Land by Mary Antin (1912)
"Its multifarious business bursts through the narrow shop doors, and overruns the
basements, the sidewalk, the street itself, in pushcarts and open-air ..."
2. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1904)
"An examination of some of the book laden pushcarts revealed the dramas of Henrik
Ibsen, books on criminology by Max Nordau, Darwin's "Origin of Species," ..."
3. Modern American Poetry by Louis Untermeyer (1921)
"They are covering up the pushcarts . . . Now all have gone save an old man with
mirrors— Little oval mirrors like tiny pools. He shuffles up a darkened ..."
4. Modern American Poetry by Louis Untermeyer (1921)
"The moon like a skull, Staring out of eyeless sockets at the old men trundling
home the pushcarts. A sallow dawn is in the sky As I enter my little green ..."
5. The Journal of Home Economics by American Home Economics Association (1915)
"One of the markets which was located on the lower East Side was not successful,
largely, it is felt, because it was in competition with the pushcarts rather ..."
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