Publican

(noun.) the keeper of a public house.

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• It was but the day before my arrival that one of them had been most grossly insulted in the house of a publican. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Her religion must have been that of the Pharisee who thanked God that he was not as other men are, nor even as that publican. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Watson, it was no brain of a country publican that thought out such a blind as that. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• I am attended by a select body of our boys; the butcher, by two other butchers, a young publican, and a sweep. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• After his return he called Matthew from the receipt of customs, performed some cures, and created scandal by eating with publicans and sinners. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.

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