vanmen
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pluralof vanman.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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What could occur in Wellingsford without it being known at once to vanmen and postmen and barbers and servants and masters and mistresses?
From The Red Planet by William John Locke
Carters, too, and vanmen employed by coal-merchants, builders, and other tradesmen in the town, are comparatively well off with constant work at eighteen or twenty shillings a week.
From Change in the Village by George Sturt
They shout, they curse, they put their hands to their mouths trumpet wise and bellow at each other, these cabbies, vanmen, busmen, all angry at the block in the narrow way.
From The Open Air by Richard Jefferies
Who'll be the vanmen to list and carry?
From Touch and Go by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence