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Huckstress   Listen
noun
Huckstress  n.  A female huckster.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Huckstress" Quotes from Famous Books



... pathetic was that of Betsy Fuller, a free Negro huckstress of Norfolk, and her slave husband. The colored man's legal status was that of property belonging to his wife. Upon the approach of the Civil War he was blatant in his advocacy of Southern views, thus evincing his ...
— The Journal of Negro History, Vol. I. Jan. 1916 • Various

... and ear-rings and other gewgaws wherein women delight and grudge not the cash. Put all the stock into the crate and bring it to me and I will set it on my head and go round about, in the guise of a huckstress and make search for her in all the houses, till I happen on news of her— Inshallah!" So Ali Shar rejoiced in her words and kissed her hands, then, going out, speedily brought her all she required; whereupon she rose ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 4 • Richard F. Burton



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