All 4 Uses of
proprietor
in
Great Expectations
- This was horrible, and gave me a sickening idea of London; the more so as the Lord Chief Justice's proprietor wore (from his hat down to his boots and up again to his pocket-handkerchief inclusive) mildewed clothes which had evidently not belonged to him originally, and which I took it into my head he had bought cheap of the executioner.†
Chpt 20
- These were agreeably dispersed among small specimens of china and glass, various neat trifles made by the proprietor of the museum, and some tobacco-stoppers carved by the Aged.†
Chpt 25 *
- I was, and I am, sensible that the air of this chamber, in its strong combination of stable with soup-stock, might have led one to infer that the coaching department was not doing well, and that the enterprising proprietor was boiling down the horses for the refreshment department.†
Chpt 33
- Once more, he took me by both hands and surveyed me with an air of admiring proprietorship: smoking with great complacency all the while.†
Chpt 40
Definition:
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(proprietor) the owner of a business