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breadseller en · NOUN

Etymology

From bread + seller. Compare the Middle English surname Bredseller.

Meanings

1. A seller of bread.
   • It was the breadsellers who woke the neighbourhood, shouting: ‘Bread for sale, bread for sale!’ Paulo Cachaça and Breadman Lolo, the only adult breadsellers, spent the mornings crying their wares:[…] 2006, Paulo Lins, translated by Alison Entrekin, City of God, Black Cat, →ISBN, page 20:
   • At Rome the inhabitants of the Trastevere quarter have been expressing their indignation in their usual manner; a retail breadseller having fallen victim to their knives in a dispute about the relative size and price of his loaves. 1853 September, “Narrative of Foreign Events”, in Charles Dickens, editor, The Household Narrative of Current Events, (for the Year 1853,) Being a Monthly Supplement to Household Words, volume IV, London: Office, […], page 213:
   • The breadseller said, “Pay money, and you can have some.” 1985, Russell P. Spittler, “The Testament of Job”, in Marinus de Jonge, editor, Outside the Old Testament (Cambridge Commentaries on Writings of the Jewish & Christian World, 200 BC to AD 200; 4), Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 239:

Forms

Synonyms

breadmonger