billman

[ bil-muhn ]

noun

, plural bill·men.

1. bill ³( def 2 ).

Word History and Origins

Origin of billman¹

First recorded in 1520–30; bill ³ + -man

Example Sentences

Mrs. Billman, Milly decided, and so confided to her husband, was hard and ambitious socially.

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She had a woman's respect for any institution, and Mrs. Billman had made her feel that Bunker's was a very important institution.

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For Hazel Fredericks had two merely for household purposes and the Billman's house boasted of four and a boy in buttons.

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But neither Billman nor Fredericks had felt obliged to leave the magazine, she learned from Hazel.

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Mrs. Bunker and Mrs. Billman, of course, had long since lost sight of Milly in the course of her migrations.

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