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letter carrier

noun

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First recorded in 1545–55

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He had been ever ready to come in on his day off to fill in when a fellow letter carrier fell ill or had a personal emergency.

He was a letter carrier unlike any other, or perhaps exactly like the iconic mailman of another era.

But it would be without the letter carrier who knew his route more by names and particular needs than by street numbers.

Then she wrinkled her funny little nose, laughed again, and from that instant the letter-carrier became her abject slave.

The shrill call of a letter-carrier's whistle banished the silent fury into which he had worked himself.

I've never seen it, but I know it better than any letter-carrier in the district.

He became a letter-carrier, only to lose his situation and undergo a severe term of imprisonment for stealing letters.

As she neared the cottage on her return home she caught sight of the letter carrier approaching the gate.

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