What does crossing-sweeper mean?

crossing-sweeper

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.87 in modern English

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"There was one giant — a black 'un — as left his carawan some year ago and took to carrying coach-bills about London, making himself as cheap as crossing-sweepers."
"But the streets were also a place of work: for the humble crossing-sweeper, for example, who tried to ensure, in return for a tip, that when persons of quality crossed the road they did so without having to pick their way through dust, mud and horse dung."

crossing-sweepers (plural)

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