- A
costermonger, coster, or
costard is a
street seller of
fruit and
vegetables in
British towns. The term is
derived from the
words costard (a medieval...
- that can be
easily transported; the term is
roughly synonymous with
costermonger or peddler. In most
places where the term is used, a
hawker sells inexpensive...
-
peculiar slang language" (****ney
rhyming slang) when
describing the
costermongers of the East End.
Since the
start of the 21st
century the
extreme form...
-
towns and villages. In London, more
specific terms were used, such as
costermonger. From antiquity,
peddlers filled the gaps in the
formal market economy...
- an
early version,[citation needed]
dating from the 1820s, a ****ney
costermonger vowed to be true to his fiancée, who had been
sentenced to
seven years'...
-
Wilkinson were
impressed enough to form an
independent record label called Costermonger with the sole
purpose of
promoting Gene to a
wider audience.
Their double...
- vegetables) from two-wheeled barrows.
London street traders were
called costermongers (from costard, the
mediaeval word for apple) and more
generally barrow...
-
debut album by
British rock band Gene,
released on 20
March 1995 by
Costermonger Records. It is
frequently recognized as one of the
crowning achievements...
-
refers to "their use of a
peculiar slang language" when
describing the
costermongers of London's East End. A
dialectological study of
Leytonstone in 1964...
- 1990:
Vietnamese costermonger in Gera...
