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HOSIER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does hosier mean?
• HOSIER (noun)
The noun HOSIER has 1 sense:
1. a tradesman who sells hosiery and (in England) knitwear
Familiarity information: HOSIER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A tradesman who sells hosiery and (in England) knitwear
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("hosier" is a kind of...):
market keeper; shopkeeper; storekeeper; tradesman (a merchant who owns or manages a shop)
Context examples
I took part of a small house in the Old Jewry; and being advised to alter my condition, I married Mrs. Mary Burton, second daughter to Mr. Edmund Burton, hosier, in Newgate-street, with whom I received four hundred pounds for a portion.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
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