tobacconist
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Among the handwritten names which fill the columns of the 1911 census, she found a tobacconist assistant called Gordon McPherson.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2025
Historian Kenneth Milano has traced Shiffler’s lineage to a tobacconist father and a mother whose family built ships and wharves, but we know little about his early life.
From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2021
Max Nesterak, a reporter at the Minnesota Reformer, interviewed a group of armed men outside a tobacconist who said they agree with the protests but not the looting.
From Fox News ● May 28, 2020
Given his freedom, Brown had the house built for himself in the 1770s and lived there as a prosperous tobacconist and apothecary until his death.
From New York Times ● Nov. 13, 2018
On the sidewalk across the way the tobacconist brought out a chair, set it in front of his door, and straddled it, resting his arms on the back.
From "The Stranger" by Albert Camus
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Some sectors actually recorded growth, with tobacconists, coffee shops and beauty salons increasing in number.
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2017
Claims dating back to the summer piled up from peeved brewers, printers and tobacconists.
From New York Times ● Dec. 30, 2016
Penguin was to be the peoples' publisher: their books read by those attending the universities of life and Oxbridge; available in bookshops and tobacconists.
From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2011
They are all oldtime tobacconists, sure they can keep costs down low enough to profit on a small margin.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Most of the "paper," it may be said, was not smoked; it was handed back to the tobacconists when the siege was raised, and possibly some canned things were surrendered as well.
From The Siege of Kimberley by Phelan, T.
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