Definition of "crossing-sweeper" []

• Someone whose job is to sweep street crossings. (noun)

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• "A couple of Mayfair swells; and the Indian crossing-sweeper who cleared the mud from those quality streets."
• "But every newspaper man, every crossing-sweeper, thinks himself a moralist."
• "Then I saw him, outside the entrance to the Bank, amongst a huddle of pedestrians waiting for the crossing-sweeper to do his work."