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English
Noun
chimney-sweep (plural chimney-sweeps)
- Archaic form of chimney sweep.
1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, “A Quarrel about an Heiress”, in Vanity Fair , London: Bradbury and Evans , published 1848, →OCLC, page 181:[…] he came home to find […] honest Swartz in her favourite amber-coloured satin, with turquoise-bracelets, countless rings, flowers, feathers, and all sorts of tags and gimcracks, about as elegantly decorated as a she chimney-sweep on May day.
1851, Henry Mayhew, “The Street-Folk”, in London Labour and the London Poor; , volume I (The London Street-folk. Book the First.), London: [George Woodfall], →OCLC, page 4, column 2:The Cleansers—such as scavengers, nightmen, flushermen, chimney-sweeps, dustmen, crossing-sweepers, “street-orderlies,” labourers to sweeping-machines and to watering-carts.
1867, “F. R.”, “Notes on Trapping and Wood-Craft”, in S Newhouse, edited by J H Noyes and T. L. Pitt, The Trapper’s Guide; A Manual of Instructions , 2nd edition, Wallingford, Conn.: Oneida Community. the Community Press, page 115:It is supposed to climb like the old chimney-sweeps, being found with its back braced against the side of the hollow.