GREENGROCERY • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Greengrocery

... was not a greengrocery business that she carried on, but, on the contrary, a little coal business: she sold coals clandestinely and in small portions ...

— Norse Tales and Sketches • Alexander Lange Kielland

... about the price of peas and potatoes, and urged to remember that not by bread alone doth man live. In The Foundations of International Polity (HEINEMANN), a series of lectures developing phases of the argument of the Great Illusion, Mr. NORMAN ANGELL incidentally deals with this greengrocery business. Nobody with knowledge of his shrewd and vigorous method will be surprised that without bluster or rhetoric he establishes a very clear verdict of acquittal. One has always the impression that the rationalist in him is deliberately repressing the mystic, lest his case ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 22, 1914 • Various