sandwichman

Etymology

sandwich (board) + -man

noun

  1. A man who wears a sandwich board.
    There came along in the gutter a sandwich-man. […] Now I read what was on his boards. […] 1899, Harold Frederic, The Marketplace
    INDORSE To write on the back of; the best indorsed man in town being the Sandwich-Man. 1904, Gideon Wurdz, The Foolish Dictionary
    Certainly it amounted to a continual advertisement for him; an infinitely more effective advertisement than, for instance, a sandwichman at eighteen-pence a day, and costing no more, even with the licence and the shoeing. 1911, Arnold Bennett, The Card

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