mercer
noun
a dealer in textile fabrics; dry-goods merchant.
mercers
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pluralof mercer.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
It is not known whether the mercers bought their silks from the Lombards, or the London silk-women, or whether they imported them themselves, since many of the members of the Company were merchants.
From Old and New London Volume I by Walter Thornbury
As the tea-merchants go out to collect their produce of the little farmers; so the mercers in the Nankeen districts leave their cities for the purchase, in the same way, of home-woven cloth.
From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, August, 1851 by Various
Most of their members were London mercers, though there were also in the society members of other London companies, and traders whose homes were in other English towns than London.
From An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England by Edward Potts Cheyney
