mercer
noun
a dealer in textile fabrics; dry-goods merchant.
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mercer
American
[mur-ser]
/ ˈmɜr sər /
noun
Chiefly British.
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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
"Well, mistress: you must know that Peregrine Cadger, the mercer, who in the main is a discreet man——" "Yes."
From Rob of the Bowl, Vol. I (of 2) A Legend of St. Inigoe's by John P. Kennedy
For some reason Emma left Doctor Budd's service rather suddenly and found a job as helper in the shop of a St. James' Market mercer.
From Superwomen by Albert Payson Terhune
But there is “no evidence connecting the two death investigations at this time,” said Kari Mercer, a spokesperson for the Sheriff’s Department.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
Mercer is one of millions of Americans going without health insurance after the ending of federal subsidies that kept their ACA premium bills down.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
“They’re different in many ways,” said Calvin Mercer, an East Carolina University religious studies professor who writes about human enhancement technologies.
From Slate ● Jul. 29, 2026
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
For Mercer everything is easy, he thought, because Mercer accepts everything.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
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
This meant that a foreign ship bringing wine to the port of London could only dispose of her merchandise to the wholesale vintners: or one bringing silk could only sell it to wholesale mercers.
From The History of London by Sir Walter Besant
My father has secured me a post at a mercers in Ludgate Hill.
From Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera' by Charles Edward Pearce
Originally it was chiefly patronised by mercers, silkmen, and lacemen.
From Here and There in London by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie
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