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Definition of Slopseller
1. Noun. A dealer in cheap ready-made clothing.
Geographical relationships: Britain, Great Britain, U.k., Uk, United Kingdom, United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Northern Ireland
Generic synonyms: Bargainer, Dealer, Monger, Trader
Definition of Slopseller
1. n. One who sells slops, or ready-made clothes. See 4th Slop, 3.
Definition of Slopseller
1. Noun. (dated) One who sells slops, or ready-made clothes. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Slopseller
Literary usage of Slopseller
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction by Reuben Percy, John Timbs (1828)
"Jack himself throws a dash of the ridiculous into the business; he checkers with
individual whim the else unrelieved baseness of the slopseller. ..."
2. The Diary of Samuel Pepys by Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, Richard Neville-Griffin Braybrooke (1899)
"The other was Captain Beckford, the slopseller, who appears to have been the same
man as Alderman Thomas Beckford, Sheriff of London, 1677, who was knighted ..."
3. A Practical Guide to the Quarter Sessions and Other Sessions of the Peace by William Dickinson (1820)
"... in the parish of Minster,;: the county of Kent, slopseller, Aaron M., ...
of the same place, slopseller, f' me the said justice to understand and be ..."
4. A Treatise on the Law of Princpal and Surety by Edward Dix Pitman (1840)
"Temple was as follows : — The plaintiff was a tailor and slopseller at Portsmouth,
and the defendant the first lieutenant of HMS The Boyne. ..."
5. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1835)
"There never was so meek, so picturesque a slopseller. Behold him with imperturbable
tranquillity surrounded by a crowd of sailors, every man exhibiting a ..."
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