Streetling
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A small, inferior, or minor street.
"[…] and was then received into a magnificent high-backed chair, covered with orange silk, and gay with flags and streamers, on which I was borne on the shoulders of six electors, nodding majestically through all the streets and streetlings; […]"
- 2 One who frequents or lives on the streets.
"This, however, it was impossible in such a bustling thoroughfare to do; a fact which the scrambling and exclamations of the half-dozen streetlings clambering on the outer railings speedily brought home to me."
Example
More examples"[…] and was then received into a magnificent high-backed chair, covered with orange silk, and gay with flags and streamers, on which I was borne on the shoulders of six electors, nodding majestically through all the streets and streetlings; […]"
Etymology
From street + -ling.
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