Definition of "town-crier" [town•-cri•er]

• A town officer who makes proclamations to the people; the public crier of a town. (noun)

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• "Look in the next page, and you will see the ferocious, bacon-devouring ruffian of a miller is actually causing this garment to be carried through the village and cried by the town-crier."
• "But her secret had been published, as it were, by the town-crier in the High Street!"
• "The bellman was both town-crier and night-watchman."