chimney-sweeper

See also: chimney sweeper and chimneysweeper

English

Noun

chimney-sweeper (plural chimney-sweepers)

1. Alternative form of chimney sweeper.
   • 1823, Elia [pseudonym; Charles Lamb], “The Praise of Chimney-Sweepers”, in Elia. Essays which have Appeared under that Signature in The London Magazine, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC, page 249:

     I like to meet a sweep—understand me—not a grown sweeper—old chimney-sweepers are by no means attractive—but one of those tender novices, blooming through their first nigritude, […]

   • 1841, Thomas Cogswell Upham, Elements of Mental Philosophy Enbracing the Two Departments of the Intellect and the Sensibilities, page 449:

     He has been in all situations and occupations of life, according to his own account; a potboy at Hampstead, a shoeblack, a chimney-sweeper, an East India Director, a kennel-raker, a gold-finder, an oyster-woman, a Jew cast-clothesman, a police justice, a judge, a keeper of Newgate, and, as he styles it, 'His Majesty's law iron-monger for the home department:' […]

   • 2006 January 29, [Bill] Brownstein, “Man loses detonator roulette”, in The Gazette, page B2, column 2:

     But what could Croatian chimney-sweeper Marko have been thinking by using a hand-grenade as a weight for his broom and then turning on his welding apparatus in the cleaning process?