"bread-monger" meaning in English

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        {
          "ref": "1841 May 29, The Manchester Courier, and Lancashire General Advertiser, volume XVII, number 858, page 3",
          "text": "The facts contained in the statement are such as tend to expose the fallacy of the cheap bread[-]mongers, and ought to be placed before every labourer in the kingdom.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1850 October 17, The Standard, number 8169",
          "text": "Aye, those were the good old times—Mr. Pitt in power, general war in Europe, small constituencies, and small bread. But what was the state of the case now? And what the position of the coronetted bread-monger?",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1930 September 27, Illustrated Leicester Chronicle, number 802, page 16",
          "text": "The man who sells us our bread is not a baker, but a bread-monger.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1948 August 18, Holmes Alexander, “Price of Bread Stays Up—But Shouldn’t”, in The Salt Lake Tribune, volume 157, number 126, Salt Lake City, Utah, page 12",
          "text": "As an example of how the bread-mongers resist efforts to lower prices, consider this dialogue.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1949 November 24, Holmes Alexander, “War Is On Against Bread Mongers”, in Fort Myers News-Press, Fort-Myers, Fla., page 4",
          "text": "War Is On Against Bread Mongers[…]Housewives—also their husbands and children—should give a rah-rah for Senator Guy Gillette, the handsome returnee from Iowa, who goes back to war on Nov. 28 against the flour and bread mongers.[…]The base of these chemicals is a substance called mono-glyceride or sometimes di[-]glyceride. One pound of this gook, plus five pounds of water, can be used to replace six pounds of natural fats and oils in bread. That’s fine for the bread-mongers because it makes their product look better and last longer.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1953 January, The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, volume 285, page 182",
          "text": "The remedy is stated to be “to eliminate the owner, the power-monger, the bread-monger, the rent-monger, and, above all, their prostitute offspring, the advertiser and salesman.[…]”",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1981, Clive Dobson, “The Winter Birds”, in Feeding Wild Birds in Winter, Firefly Books, page 65",
          "text": "City squares, bus terminals and parks are favorite feeding grounds for pigeons. Groups of people at leisure waiting for the next train or having lunch in a park will usually be the audience for a parade of these avian bread-mongers.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1991 November 18, Gregory D. Finch, “Russia, nuclear weapons and food”, in The Indianapolis Star, volume 89, number 166, page A-7",
          "text": "Leave it to some self-serving patriot, drunk with the power of being named defense minister of a country that has not governed itself since electricity, to launch a “people’s attack” on those bread-mongers in the Ukraine.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Greg Bauder, The Mystic Ill Man, Chipmunkapublishing, page 18",
          "text": "The father and son approached the bread-monger, and saw this dough-white grocer wave on the west streetside at them.[…]\" We need to stop at the bread-monger's to get some bread,\" the father said.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Scott Lynch, The Republic of Thieves (book three of Gentleman Bastard Sequence), London: Gollancz, page 461",
          "text": "‘What this means, dear Camorri, is that we hire our bit players and spear-carriers. Then we announce the times of our shows, and if we don’t manage to put them on, we’re bloody liable. To the ditch-tenders, the beer- and bread-mongers, the cushion furnishers, the envoy of ceremonies, and the countess herself, gods forbid.’",
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        "Alternative form of breadmonger"
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        {
          "ref": "1841 May 29, The Manchester Courier, and Lancashire General Advertiser, volume XVII, number 858, page 3",
          "text": "The facts contained in the statement are such as tend to expose the fallacy of the cheap bread[-]mongers, and ought to be placed before every labourer in the kingdom.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1850 October 17, The Standard, number 8169",
          "text": "Aye, those were the good old times—Mr. Pitt in power, general war in Europe, small constituencies, and small bread. But what was the state of the case now? And what the position of the coronetted bread-monger?",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1930 September 27, Illustrated Leicester Chronicle, number 802, page 16",
          "text": "The man who sells us our bread is not a baker, but a bread-monger.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1948 August 18, Holmes Alexander, “Price of Bread Stays Up—But Shouldn’t”, in The Salt Lake Tribune, volume 157, number 126, Salt Lake City, Utah, page 12",
          "text": "As an example of how the bread-mongers resist efforts to lower prices, consider this dialogue.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1949 November 24, Holmes Alexander, “War Is On Against Bread Mongers”, in Fort Myers News-Press, Fort-Myers, Fla., page 4",
          "text": "War Is On Against Bread Mongers[…]Housewives—also their husbands and children—should give a rah-rah for Senator Guy Gillette, the handsome returnee from Iowa, who goes back to war on Nov. 28 against the flour and bread mongers.[…]The base of these chemicals is a substance called mono-glyceride or sometimes di[-]glyceride. One pound of this gook, plus five pounds of water, can be used to replace six pounds of natural fats and oils in bread. That’s fine for the bread-mongers because it makes their product look better and last longer.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1953 January, The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, volume 285, page 182",
          "text": "The remedy is stated to be “to eliminate the owner, the power-monger, the bread-monger, the rent-monger, and, above all, their prostitute offspring, the advertiser and salesman.[…]”",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1981, Clive Dobson, “The Winter Birds”, in Feeding Wild Birds in Winter, Firefly Books, page 65",
          "text": "City squares, bus terminals and parks are favorite feeding grounds for pigeons. Groups of people at leisure waiting for the next train or having lunch in a park will usually be the audience for a parade of these avian bread-mongers.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1991 November 18, Gregory D. Finch, “Russia, nuclear weapons and food”, in The Indianapolis Star, volume 89, number 166, page A-7",
          "text": "Leave it to some self-serving patriot, drunk with the power of being named defense minister of a country that has not governed itself since electricity, to launch a “people’s attack” on those bread-mongers in the Ukraine.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Greg Bauder, The Mystic Ill Man, Chipmunkapublishing, page 18",
          "text": "The father and son approached the bread-monger, and saw this dough-white grocer wave on the west streetside at them.[…]\" We need to stop at the bread-monger's to get some bread,\" the father said.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Scott Lynch, The Republic of Thieves (book three of Gentleman Bastard Sequence), London: Gollancz, page 461",
          "text": "‘What this means, dear Camorri, is that we hire our bit players and spear-carriers. Then we announce the times of our shows, and if we don’t manage to put them on, we’re bloody liable. To the ditch-tenders, the beer- and bread-mongers, the cushion furnishers, the envoy of ceremonies, and the countess herself, gods forbid.’",
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        }
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