Definition of "ruddleman" []

• Someone who deals in ruddle (red ochre) (noun)

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• "Can anyone visit Dorset and not in some sense feel that he, too, is one of Thomas Hardy’s natives returning on a Can you drive through that country and not look for Eustacia Vye and Diggory Venn, the ruddleman, and Michael Hen-chard, the Mayor of Casterbridge?"