Thursday, December 9, 2010

Pannier-man

A fish seller who brings his goods to market in a large basket known as a pannier. The officer in the Inns of Court, who brought provisions back from the market using a horse and panniers.

"If the pannier-man's jack was ever better known by his loins of mutton, I'll be flayed."

Ben Jonson, Bartholomew Fair (1614).

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