bringer-out

plural bringers-out

1. agentAgent noun of bring out.

   IF the bringers-out of novels would take a leaf from the motor-car advertisement writers, their blurbs about new books would be far more up to date.

   1920 March 4, “If Publishers Were Automobile Salesmen”, in Life, volume 75, number 1948, New York, N.Y.: Life Publishing Company, page 399, column 1

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   Connor & Co. are famous among shoe-wise people for the downright excellence of their productions. They are among the foremost bringers-out of new styles.

   1896 March 26, The Chicago Daily Tribune, volume LV, number 86, Chicago, Ill., page 12

   They contain tiny amounts of unrecognizable stewed-to-a-rag meat in a sea of pasta and cornfloury gravy, heavily charged with onion essence and monosodium glutamate, that bringer-out of flavour that figures in so many convenience foods.

   1969, Georgina Horley, Good Food on a Budget, London: The Cookery Book Club, published 1970, page 466

   Cavalrymen became the clean-up brigade after German trenches had been taken, the bringers-out of the dead and the wounded, the makers of roads through the mud and the slime, the carriers of ammunition and supplies and the guardians of the communication cables.

   2015, John Fairley, Horses of the Great War: The Story in Art, Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Pen & Sword Military, →ISBN, page 19