Streetling
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Streetling is a noun meaning A small, inferior, or minor street.
Meaning
A small, inferior, or minor street.
More Meanings
- One who frequents or lives on the streets.
Example Sentences
Clean face and glossy curls must never frown upon little smutty, streetling publican.
Suddenly I was a demure demoiselle set to scream a second time for help, not the starving streetling I'd become since arriving in Paris six months prior, several weeks shy of my sixteenth birthday.
This, however, it was impossible in such a bustling thoroughfare to do; a fact which the scrambling and exclamations of the half-dozen streetlings clambering on the outer railings speedily brought home to me.
[…] and was then received into a magnificent high-backed chair, covered with orange silk, and gay with flags and streamers, on which I was borne on the shoulders of six electors, nodding majestically through all the streets and streetlings; […]
Word Forms
- streetlings
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include friendling, slaveling, street, minor, masterling, countling.
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