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Adman N Person Works Advertising Passed Re Passed Gamut

Word adman
Definition n. A person who works in advertising.
Sentence We passed and re-passed through the whole gamut of American roadside restaurants, from the lowly Eat with its deer head (dark trace of long tear at inner canthus), ‘humorous’ picture post cards of the posterior ‘Kurort’ type, impaled guest checks, life savers, sunglasses, adman visions of celestial sundaes, one half of a chocolate cake under glass, and several horribly experienced flies zigzagging over the sticky sugar-pour on the ignoble counter…
Source Lolita, II.2, p. 163

Tags: language::english, topic::vocabulary

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