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breadmonger en · NOUN

Etymology

From bread + monger. Compare the Middle English surname Bredmongestere.

Meanings

1. A seller of bread.
   • Also included is a visit to Busch Gardens’ “The Old Country,” a Europe on this side of the Atlantic, where you’ll experience the cultures of England, Germany, and France . . . Shakespearean towns, music, and merriment, flower stands, breadmongers and foods of all sorts . . . see it by train, skyride, monorail or explore it on foot, finding birds, animal shows, shops and smiles everywhere. 1976 March 21, “United’s ’76 Bicentennial East Coast tours”, in Travel (HNA advertising supplement), page 11:
   • Mr. W. Dean Taylor lectured here on Monday evening, in the Market Place, to an audience composed of Tories, Bread Mongers, and Chartists. 1841 July 17, The Northern Star, and Leeds General Advertiser, volume IV, number 192, page 7:
   • The first response to Kinnaird’s bill was that it had something to do with the fact that many breadmongers are smarting from the low-carb craze. 2004 May 23, Matt Dees, “The way the cookie crumbles”, in The Sunday News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.: The News and Observer Publishing Company, page A3:
   • Greengrocers, breadmongers, and haberdashers around took notice of him. 2004, Theodore Alaraibe, Ants and Elephants, Cel-Bez & Co. Publishers, →ISBN, page 180:
   • Aristophanes’ plays certainly flout Mr Aeschylus’ sense of decorum in staging the distinguished generals Demosthenes and Nicias as slaves (in Knights), or the demigod Heracles as a hungry buffoon (in Birds) or the tragic poets Aeschylus and Euripides as wrangling breadmongers and cheesemongers, in the words of Dionysos (858, 1369). 1991, Ramus, Aureal Publications, page 100:
   • He dwelt in severe terms upon the hypocrisy of Messrs. Cobden and Bright, and such like humanity and cheap bread mongers, for their opposition to the Ten Hours’ Bill. 1846 May 27, The Manchester Courier, and Lancashire General Advertiser, volume XXII, number 1142, page 4:
   • […]; stands of every description were numerous, and dealers in nuts, ginger-bread mongers, shooting gallery proprietors, and a host of other village fair followers appeared to be doing a great business amongst the rustics. 1865 October 7, “Chipping Fair and Cattle Show”, in The Preston Chronicle and Lancashire Advertiser, number 2831, page 6:
   • The death of a bread monger, named Puffi unfolds the tale of twelve female prisoners who battle the starving desire to eat Puffi for dinner in a conflict between their stomachs and the morality of the outrighteous Tante. 1974 November 15, The Charlatan, volume 4, number 15, page 20:
   • They kept the bright red and blue conveyance the way Earl the breadmonger had wanted it. 2011, Bob Saar, In Memory of David’s Buick, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 361:
   • She [Gina Damico] has since worked as a tour guide, transcriptionist, theater house manager, scenic artist, movie extra, office troll, retail monkey, yarn hawker, and breadmonger. 2012, Croak, Graphia, →ISBN:
   • “It’s an early peddler. She sings, ‘Bread, fresh baked this morning. Bread, warm from the oven.’ ” Kerf sounded sentimental. “Helps us!” Alaria’s desperate scream was so shrill my ears rang with it. “Help us, oh help us! We are trapped!” When she finally stopped shrieking, for lack of breath, my ears were ringing. I strove to hear the bread-woman’s song or the clopping hooves, but I heard nothing. “She is gone,” Vindeliar said sadly. “We are in a city,” Kerf declared. “Only cities have breadmongers at dawn, selling wares in the street.” 2017, Robin Hobb [pen name; Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden], Assassin’s Fate (book III of the The Fitz and the Fool Trilogy), Del Rey, →ISBN:
   • Thomas, son of Sarah la Bredmongestere,¹[…]¹ A female breadmonger. 1902, Reginald R. Sharpe, editor, Calendar of Letter-Books Preserved Among the Archives of the Corporation of the City of London at the Guildhall. Letter-Book D. Circa a.d. 1309–1314., London: […] John Edward Francis, page 265:
   • Lance Boil, breadmonger 2009, The Council Gritter, Dennis Publishing, →ISBN, page 149:
   • William Pitt in power! war in Europe! small constituencies, and small bread! (Loud cheers.) But what is the state of the case at the present time—what the condition of the coroneted breadmonger now? 1850 November 15, The Liberator, volume XX, number 46 (whole 1036), Boston, Mass., page 183:
   • “I’m being punished for stealing bread from a breadmonger in the bailey.” 2001, Mark Anthony, Dark Remains (book three of The Last Rune), Bantam Spectra, →ISBN, page 53:
   • Aksenov's essay "Progulka v Kalashnyi riad" (A stroll to Breadmongers' row) appeared in Grani, No. 133 (see our abstract 6653). 1987, Abstracts of Soviet and East European Emigré Periodical Literature, page 69:
   • “What this means, dear Camorri, is that we hire our bit players and spear-carriers. Then we announce the times of our shows, and if we don’t manage to put them on, we’re bloody liable. To the ditch-tenders, the beer- and breadmongers, the cushion furnishers, the envoy of ceremonies, and the countess herself, gods forbid.” 2013, Scott Lynch, The Republic of Thieves, New York, N.Y.: Del Rey, →ISBN, page 500:

Forms

Synonyms

breadseller