mercer
noun
a dealer in textile fabrics; dry-goods merchant.
mercer
American
[mur-ser]
/ ˈmɜr sər /
noun
Chiefly British.
mercers
plural
Mercer
1
British
/ ˈmɜːsə /
noun
mercer
2
British
/ ˈmɜːsə /
noun
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Etymology
Origin of mercer
1150–1200; Middle English < Anglo-French; Old French mercier merchant, equivalent to merz merchandise (< Latin merx, accusative mercem ) + -ier -ier 2; see -er 2
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UConn: UConn, which beat mercer 83-38 in the first round, improves to 18-3 as a No. 2 seed and 29-2 all-time in the second round, where they last lost in 1992.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 21, 2022
One of them, the mercer William Caxton, saw the potential of this type of literature if circulated in print.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 22, 2011
A prosperous Bordeaux mercer has the misfortune to upset his gig in a ditch.
From Time Magazine Archive
Adélaïde Labille des Vertus, the daughter of a mercer, was married to a certain Guyard, a neighbour.
From Women Painters of the World From the Time of Caterina Vigri, 1413-1463, to Rosa Bonheur and the Present Day by Sparrow, Walter Shaw
The projector of the next lighthouse for the Eddystone was again a London mercer, who kept a silk shop on Ludgate Hill.
From The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 2 by Whymper, Frederick
Glasgow singer Kerr Mercer opened up the Main Stage and later told BBC Scotland he had been so nervous that he forgot the words to his first song.
From BBC ● Jun. 21, 2026
“It’s not a question of whether you will own it or not own it,” Mercer Advisors Chief Investment Officer Don Calcagni told MarketWatch.
From MarketWatch ● May 29, 2026
AFP analysed this data for 14 Mercer funds held by Tuvalu.
From Barron's ● May 28, 2026
“There’s a little bit of a disconnect at the moment between the bond market and the equity market,” said Don Calcagni, the chief investment officer at Mercer Advisors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026
A sixteen-legged cedar turtle, more than sixty feet long, they crossed Mercer Street and headed south on Westlake, plunging into downtown traffic.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
Garthwaite's designs were bought by the major mercers, woven by master weavers and worn by men and women of the highest rank.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 20, 2010
Under pressure from cotton mercers who protested that the Government's cotton holdings acted as a "cloud" over the market, the Federal Farm Board last week announced the coming of a cloudburst.
From Time Magazine Archive
The mercers and haberdashers lived in West Chepe or Cheapside, which Stephen had to go down every day.
From One Snowy Night Long ago at Oxford by Irwin, M. (Madelaine)
Afterwards mercers and lacemen invited customers to shops in the Row, and finally it became famous for books and magazines.
From Chatterbox, 1905. by Various
You find in their cities barbers and mercers; saddlers and gunsmiths; bakers and confectioners; sometimes butchers; whitesmiths and ironmongers; these are pretty nearly all their trades.
From Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity by Newman, John Henry
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