What does chimney-sweep mean?
Chimney-sweep means Archaic form of chimney sweep..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
Archaic form of chimney sweep..
[…] he came home to find […] honest Swartz in her favourite amber-coloured satin, with turquoise-bracelets, countless rings, flowers, feathers, and all sorts of tags and gimcracks, about as elegantly decorated as a she chimney-sweep on May day.
The Cleansers—such as scavengers, nightmen, flushermen, chimney-sweeps, dustmen, crossing-sweepers, “street-orderlies,” labourers to sweeping-machines and to watering-carts.
It is supposed to climb like the old chimney-sweeps, being found with its back braced against the side of the hollow.
Use chimney-sweep when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Chimney-sweep means Archaic form of chimney sweep..
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[…] he came home to find […] honest Swartz in her favourite amber-coloured satin, with turquoise-bracelets, countless rings, flowers, feathers, and all sorts of tags and gimcracks, about as elegantly decorated as a she chimney-sweep on May day.
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