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looked upon
usually as a term of
reproach --signifying a shrewd, sharp,
chaffering, oily-tongued, soft-sawdering, inquisitive, money-making, money-saving...
- as is the rule for the
shrouded women of Iran,
these farmers'
wives chaffered and
haggled with the men in the
bazar outside the city,
transacting business...
-
characteristic anecdotes of the bookseller's
unyielding toryism, of his
rebuffs to
chaffering customers, and of his
unwillingness to
supply the
London trade. He preferred...
