tobacconist
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“I think she’s full of good ideas,” Cyrielle Bernard, a 19-year-old who lives in this picturesque Burgundy town, told me one afternoon last week, chatting in the tobacconist shop where she works.
From New York Times ● Apr. 22, 2022
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
Hudson fought in the Napoleonic Wars, and later became a successful tobacconist with a shop in London's Oxford Street.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2015
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
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
The nation's druggists, grocers, confectioners and tobacconists had turned amiable liars.
From Time Magazine Archive
Notwithstanding the few examples given above, tobacconists, more than most tradesmen, seem to have continued to use signs that had at least some relevance to their trade.
From The Social History of Smoking by Apperson, George Latimer
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