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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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
Never mind the old lady and the silk mercer.
From The Heart of Denise and Other Tales by S. (Sidney) Levett-Yeats
But be that as it may: there was the most laughable prank played on the mercer by Halfpenny and the Viewer together, last night, that ever was heard of.
From Rob of the Bowl, Vol. I (of 2) A Legend of St. Inigoe's by John P. Kennedy
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
Mercer took over management of the $200 million Tuvalu Trust Fund in 2022.
From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 2026
“I’m not very special, only moderately; not like some you see. But that’s what Mercer doesn’t care about.”
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
St. Thomas's Church was a large structure, probably rich in monuments, though many of the illustrious mercers were buried in Bow Church, St. Pancras, Soper Lane, St. Antholin's, Watling Street, and St. Benet Sherehog.
From Old and New London Volume I by Walter Thornbury
The Prossers were the younger branch of a Brecknockshire family who had become sadlers and mercers in Brecon.
From Poems of Henry Vaughan, Silurist, Volume II by E. K. (Edmund Kerchever) Chambers
Grey-haired mercers that stood and conversed in groups, and coltish apprentices in flat caps and suits of blue I noted, and otherwhiles dancers and mountebanks with a host of idle folk following.
From Idonia: A Romance of Old London by Arthur F. Wallis
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