egg-and

Updated: June 10, 2025

A sort of market is held there, and the place is swarming with blue cloaks and groups of men talking; here and there is a stall with coarse linens, crockery, a cheese; and crowds of egg-and milk-women are squatted on the pavement, with their ragged customers or gossips.

Various - Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 2 : Great Britain and Ireland, Part 2

The uppermost, at the distance of my diagram, or in nature itself, would scarcely be distinguished at a careless glance from an egg-and- arrow moulding.

John Ruskin - Val d'Arno