lemonadier

plural lemonadiers

1. Someone who makes or sells lemonade.

   Manual of the Lemonadier , Confectioner , and Distiller

   1837, Two thousand five hundred practical Recipes in Family Cookery ... With an introduction on the duties of cooks and other servants, ... instructions for marketing ... and carving, page 28

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   to make up the group there are beggars at their stands, and the keepers of movbable gaming-tables, and musicians, conjurers, and mountebanks selling physic, and lemonadiers, and fortune-tellers. The lemonadier is a man very neatly and rather fantastically dressed , who has a large urn upon bis back, from which he offers liquorice and water, and sometimes lemonade to all that pass.

   1809, Oliver Oldschool, Prospectus of the Port Folio, a Monthly Miscellany, page 123

   The letters from Madrid, which were filled with complaints against him, together with some scandalous adventures, known in Paris, such as his running away with the wife of a lemonadier, exceedingly annoyed Bonapart, who found his own family more difficult to govern than france.

   1831, Private Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte - During the Periods of the Directory, the Consulate, and the Empire, volume 1, page 454

   There were, besides, lemonadiers, and, to the annoyance of the resident cafetiers, brandy-merchants.

   1841, Laurent de l'Ardeche, History of Napoleon: From the French of M. Laurent de L'Ardeche, page 40

   […] as they drank a cup each of the black coffee which was being offered for sale, at a sou the cup, by a lemonadier.

   1853, Hogg's Instructor, page 293

   Mr. Powell's English Parts .. 1790 .. Dec. 20 - Picture of Paris . . . Lemonadier

   1968, History of the American Theatre: New Foundations, volume 3, page 18