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the owner of a business
- It had occurred to me that this shadow of a garage must be a blind, and that sumptuous and romantic apartments were concealed overhead, when the proprietor himself appeared in the door of an office, wiping his hands on a piece of waste.p. 25.3
- I had talked with him perhaps half a dozen times in the past month and found, to my disappointment, that he had little to say: So my first impression, that he was a person of some undefined consequence, had gradually faded and he had become simply the proprietor of an elaborate road-house next door.p. 64.9
- After a moment the proprietor emerged from the interior of his establishment and gazed hollow-eyed at the car.p. 122.9
There are no more uses of "proprietor" in The Great Gatsby.
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