old clothes man

noun

Ah, they leave so many old clothes about that they need an old clothes man!

On my way here an old-clothes man offered me twelve shillings for it, but I could not force myself to part from it.

He said, from the distance to which he had withdrawn, "You want to go to bed with three nightcaps on, like an old-clothes man."

Time, the old-clothes man, thus furnishes his customers with many strange misfits.

The old-clothes man, now a publisher, picked them up from the floor and gazed at them in delight.

April 23, 2024inveterate

[in-vet-er-it ]

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