Crossword clues for town crier
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context British English) A person who is employed by a town council to make public announcements in the streets 2 (context by extension English) A gossip
WordNet
n. (formerly) an official who made public announcements [syn: crier]
Wikipedia
A town crier, or bellman, is an officer of the court who makes public pronouncements as required by the court (cf. Black's Law Dictionary).
The Town Crier1 is a group of Toronto-based community newspapers now published by Streeter Publications.
The newspapers are distributed in six editions to six communities throughout the city of Toronto. Started in 1978 by Harry Goldhar, a Toronto Star journalist, the Town Crier group has changed owners and titles over the years.
Dan Iannuzzi was the owner of the Town Crier from 2001 until his death in November 2004. Iannuzzi’s company bought the Town Crier newspapers in 2001 from Beaches resident Julie Morris, who had previously acquired them from Leaside residents Harry and Ruth Goldhar who had founded the papers with an East York-based edition in 1978. By the time of Iannuzzi's death the papers had expanded to nine editions that covered an area of over 287,000 homes and nearly a million residents in Toronto.
Town Crier published nine editions serving the Toronto neighbourhoods of Bayview Mills, Beach-South Riverdale, Riverdale-East York, Bloor West, Forest Hill, Leaside-Rosedale, North Toronto, North York and MidTown..
The chain indefinitely suspended publication in May 2013, along with sister papers Corriere Canadese, Vaughan Today and several other publications after parent company Multimedia Nova went into receivership.
Former Town Crier staff members bought the publications and three of the papers were relaunched in September 2013. As of February 2015, six papers are published monthly and biweekly: Central Toronto Town Crier, Forest Hill Town Crier, Leaside Town Crier, North Toronto Town Crier, North Toronto East Town Crier, and North Toronto West Town Crier.
Usage examples of "town crier".
This, because he, Charles Britt, had once been town crier, many years ago when his pants had been short and his eyes unimprisoned by spectacles and ledgers, and in those days he had hated the rain.
Proclaimed himself town crier one afternoon and after, that went up to the clock tower three times a day at seven a.
I was thinking more of a town crier, as they're famous for shouting out news that everyone already knows.
The town crier turned spy stumped out of the office into the baking sunlight.
There was a great uproar outside: men and women, an immense crowd, cries of: Town crier!
He was wearing his town crier's coat and hat and carrying his bell by the clapper.
Some of it was even fun, like my Number 3, the new young editor of The Town Crier, Toby Updike.
They turned to see the trumpeter and a town crier, awaiting the approach of Porphyrys Cadorna on a speckled horse with a great feather plume attached to its bridle.
The Town Crier, in his fusty costume, stood holding his bell by the clapper, while the makeup man touched up his face for him.