crier

[ UK /kɹˈa‍ɪ‍ə/ ]
[ US /ˈkɹaɪɝ/ ]
NOUN
  1. (formerly) an official who made public announcements
  2. a person who weeps
  3. a peddler who shouts to advertise the goods he sells
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How To Use crier In A Sentence

  • The teapot carries number 122, the coffee pot and cups 312, the sucriers 122 and 412, and the tray is unnumbered.
  • Silence pressed itself over the crowd while the crier waited.
  • Brednich discussed a 17th-century painting depicting broadsides being carried by a street crier.
  • Plans for the competition are going well, but more volunteers are needed to put up visiting criers in their homes for a couple of nights.
  • It sounds like you are overly concerned about being branded as a corporate crier if you go to management.
  • He had a particular association with the borough of Southwark where he was also deputy macebearer as well as the town crier. London SE1 community website
  • This lot consists of a quantity of glassware including: 4 vases, 2 sucriers and a vinegar jar, lobed pearlescent rose bowl, a cranberry glass vase overlaid with gilded detail etc.
  • I have not had an accomplishment or grace that might have been a resource to me, but it has been paraded and vended to enhance my value, as if the common crier had called it through the streets. Dombey and Son
  • The summit is piled with granite, and out of the rock was hewn 'a warden's or president's chair, seats for the jurors, and a high corner stone for the crier of the court, and a table, 'says Polwhele; and here the' hardy mountain council '-- twenty-four burgesses from each of the stannary towns -- assembled. Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts
  • The crier was a Buffalo, going at full speed from west to east. Indian Boyhood
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