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
Taking drapers and mercers as indicative of the dealing class in a staple trade, we find an increase from 82,362 to 107,018, or 29.9 per cent.
From The Evolution of Modern Capitalism A Study of Machine Production by J. A. (John Atkinson) Hobson
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 M. (Madelaine) Irwin
In the vehicles from London were conveyed milliners, toy-sellers, goldsmiths, turners, haberdashers, mercers, drapers, hatters, and in fact representatives of all the trades of the metropolis.
From John Deane of Nottingham Historic Adventures by Land and Sea by William Henry Giles Kingston
