flour-monger

plural flour-mongers · alternative flourmonger

1. A seller of flour.

   […]I heard a ruffian behind saying, “E un farinajuolo” (“He is a meal-monger,” or rather “flour-monger”).

   1898, “Early Life of John Blackwood”, in Annals of a Oublishing House: John Blackwood, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, page 11

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   Finally, the department of agriculture maintains practically a year-round surveillance to keep the bread-flour mongers from their greedy grabs.

   1949 November 24, Holmes Alexander, “War Is On Against Bread Mongers”, in Fort Myers News-Press, Fort Myers, Fla., page 4

   Bishop Hill — said to be America’s first planned community, in the modern sense — was founded in 1846 when nearly 2,000 farmers and laborers sold their homes in central Sweden, pooled their resources and left for an uncertain future on the Illinois Erik Jansson, an itinerant flour-monger who regarded himself as chosen by God to convert the world.

   1969 November 20, “A Swedish Emigration Is Recalled”, in The Austin Statesman, volume 99, number 81, Austin, Tex., page 5

   Has Master Jack forgiven you for preferring a short, stoop-shouldered flour[-]monger with hands like boiled puddings to his tall, elegant, noble self, whose white hands have never seen a day’s work?

   1997, Robin McKinley, Rose Daughter, New York, N.Y.: Ace Books, published 1998, →ISBN, page 163

   Tradesmen in the Liao-chai are of all types and include salt merchants, cloth merchants, oil chandlers, grain dealers, rug and fur traders, innkeepers, flour mongers, owners of drugstores, grocers, tavern owners, vintners, pawnbrokers, and peddlers and hawkers selling all sorts of daily necessities.

   1998, Chun-shu Chang, Shelley Hsueh-lun Chang, “Racial Tension, Socioeconomic Conditions, and Country Life”, in Redefining History: Ghosts, Spirits, and Human Society in P’u Sung-ling’s World, 1640–1715, Ann Arbor, Mich.: the University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, page 142

   The flour merchant smiled to himself. “This Birbal is a talkative halfwit,” he thought. “He is buying time because he knows that oilman cannot prove that the money pouch is not mine.” But, even as he had these thoughts, the flour-monger felt the cold stare of Birbal upon him.

   2001, James Moseley, “Birbal and the Seller of Oil”, in The Ninth Jewel of the Mughal Crown: The Birbal Tales from the Oral Traditions of India, Summerwind Marketing, Inc., →ISBN, page 101