costardmongers

Updated: June 15, 2025

In large cities and towns, and in the neighbourhood of great markets, there are crowds of poor persons who gain their livelihood by the purchase and sale of the articles of daily food, and their combined purchases form a large item in the business of those markets. The costermongers, or costardmongers, consist of various grades.

Various - Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847