breadseller

noun

Etymology

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

  1. inherited from *sellere
  2. inherited from seller
  3. compounded as breadseller — “bread + seller

Definitions

  1. A seller of bread.

    • 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.
    • The breadseller said, “Pay money, and you can have some.”
    • 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:[…]

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA