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Meanings of rag-picker in inglês
A ragpicker or chiffonnier is someone who makes a living by rummaging through refuse in the streets to collect material for salvage.
Synonyms
Examples for "chiffonnier"
Examples for "chiffonnier"
1
And as they passed her room he saw still another on the chiffonnier.
2
Fauvel's room, he opened the drawer of the chiffonnier, where she kept her jewels.
3
Lady's chair, gent's chair, sofa, and four uprights, with chiffonnier, and overmantel, and all.
4
She thought of the bag-that bag which had rumbled about so queerly in the chiffonnier.
5
But the chiffonnier refused to give up its secret.
1
The next day Anna fetched a rag-and-bone man who took the lot.
2
You'd think she got all her clothes from the rag-and-bone man.
3
The industry is going through a revolution right now, from the rag-and-bone man through to the machine.
4
The two men made an efficient partnership, if an ironic one: an engineer whose nature was to build, a rag-and-bone man whose passion was destruction.
5
Perhaps there was something else behind the murder of the Rag-and-bone Man, something personal.
Usage of rag-picker in inglês
1
The prisoners were as heterogeneous as the contents of a rag-picker's auction.
2
It might have been a rag-picker's dump-heap on a colossal scale.
3
This rag-picker was a grateful creature, and she smiled, with what a smile!
4
In this open-air society, it is the rag-picker who salutes and the portress who patronizes.
5
His garments might have been discarded by a rag-picker.
6
Then I am not likely to get drunk in Amboise, unless your rag-picker pours the wine.
7
The mind of the king is his cupboard; if he be a rag-picker, it is his basket.
8
Having finished dressing, I unlocked the door of the stuffy little cabin and called the old rag-picker.
9
The old rag-picker shook his head and made a sign with his outspread fingers expressive of contempt.
10
He lived on alms and slept in one of those rag-picker's huts near the barrier de Ternes.
11
Three of them were portresses, and the fourth was a rag-picker with her basket on her back.
12
In her own kitchen, the rag-picker's culinary gleanings formed the basis of a limited but nourishing diet.
13
He looked like a disreputable image carved in mahogany, and arrayed in the sittings of a rag-picker's store.
14
Middle-class America declared the rag-picker too lazy for "real work," or accused her of ulterior motives.
15
There is in this city a rag-picker so wealthy that he can afford to drink wine every day.
16
I do not guarantee the rag-picker.
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Frequent collocations
Rag-picker through the time