feather merchant
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of feather merchant
First recorded in 1775–85
Example Sentences
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That was enough to get Manhattan's Murray Sears, big U.S. feather merchant, to book passage to South Africa last week to buy up all the fine feathers he could find.
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