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Definition of Touting
1. tout [v] - See also: tout
Lexicographical Neighbors of Touting
Literary usage of Touting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1889)
"Gentlemen of observation (turf), an euphemism for "touts." An equally strong
force of the " touting " fraternity, and the sight of a battalion of these ..."
2. Old and New London: A Narrative of Its History, Its People and Its Places by Walter Thornbury, Edward Walford (1893)
"... Dinners— The Origin of the Ministerial Fish Dinner—Samuel Rogers and Curran—
Charles Dickens at Greenwich—The touting System—Greenwich Fair. ..."
3. Old and New London: A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places by Walter Thornbury (1893)
"... Fish Dinner—Samuel Rogers and Curran— Charles Dickens at Greenwich—The touting
System—Greenwich Fair. ALTHOUGH Greenwich is four miles distant from I of ..."
4. The Journal of Jurisprudence by Law Library Microform Consortium (1874)
"touting.—Railway accidents have been alarmingly frequent of late; and it would
seem that there are some people who are disposed to make hay while the sun ..."
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