Coster, costermonger, or costard is a street seller of fruit and vegetables, in London and other British towns.
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Coster, costermonger, or costard is a street seller of fruit and vegetables, in London and other British towns.
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It would be interesting to know how a costermonger could have made all that money by the sale of apples, oranges, and greens.
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I cannot tell, vertue is of ſo little regard in theſe coſtar-mongers times, that true valour is turnd berod […]
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The Saint Monday Gemmen held their diversions on the 18th, near Clay-hill, which consisted of a pugilistic exhibition between G. Wilkie, a coster-monger, and Jeffery Smith, a professor, but little calculated to astonish the spectators at his professional skill. The battle was for ten guineas; and, after a contest of about forty minutes, in which the combatants were decently feaked, and the head of Jeffery was a good deal disfigured, he resigned the contest, and the coster-monger was carried to Westminster in triumph, [...]
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