All 3 Uses of
proprietor
in
In Cold Blood
- "Around here," according to the proprietor of one Garden City hardware store, "locks and bolts are the fastest-going item.†
Chpt 2
- Nye had called on all the reported victims-salesmen of cameras and of radio and television equipment, the proprietor of a jewelry shop, a clerk in a clothing store-and when in each instance the witness was shown photographs of Hickock and Perry Edward Smith, he had identified the former as the author of the spurious checks, the latter as his "silent" accomplice.†
Chpt 3 *
- He described persons he and his partner had met: a Mexican widow, rich and sexy; Otto, a German "millionaire"; a "swish" pair of Negro prizefighters driving a "swish" lavender Cadillac; the blind proprietor of a Florida rattlesnake farm; a dying old man and his grandson; and others.†
Chpt 3
Definitions:
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(1)
(proprietor) the owner of a business
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
More rarely, proprietor can reference someone with sole or partial ownership of anything -- such as a trademark.