linen draper

American  

noun

British.

1. a dry-goods merchant.

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Etymology

Origin of linen draper

First recorded in 1540–50

Example Sentences

It was founded as "Kennington & Jenner" in 1838 by Charles Jenner, a linen draper, and Charles Kennington.

From BBC • Apr. 27, 2023

One of the first to discover the truth of this conjecture was a Yorkshire linen draper.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thomas Johns was a linen draper, sold silks, satinets, linen, and dimities, at his establishment in the Provinces, and was also a politician, and "went on" for the part of magistrate, occasionally.

From The Humors of Falconbridge A Collection of Humorous and Every Day Scenes by Falconbridge

I would as soon go and bargain with a linen draper about a fathom of calico as go and enquire the price of vegetables while standing between two fat old market women.

From Canada for Gentlemen by Cockburn, James Seaton

Thomas Watts, of Billericay, in Essex, of the diocess of London, was a linen draper.

From Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by Foxe, John