Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The class of commodities or goods in which a mercer deals, as silks, woolen cloths, etc.
  • noun The trade of a mercer.
  • noun A place where mercers' wares are sold.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The trade of mercers; the goods in which a mercer deals.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun uncountable The trade of mercers.
  • noun countable A mercer's shop.
  • noun The goods in which a mercer deals.

Etymologies

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French mercerie.

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Examples

  • They would then require a hatmaker, a glover, at least two ropemakers, four tailors, three weavers of woollen and three weavers of linen, two basket-makers, two common brewers, ten or twelve shop-keepers to furnish chandlery and grocery wares, and as many for drapery and mercery, over and above what they could work.

    From London to Land's End 2003

  • They would then require a hatmaker, a glover, at least two ropemakers, four tailors, three weavers of woollen and three weavers of linen, two basket-makers, two common brewers, ten or twelve shop-keepers to furnish chandlery and grocery wares, and as many for drapery and mercery, over and above what they could work.

    From London to Land's End 2003

  • They would then require a hatmaker, a glover, at least two ropemakers, four tailors, three weavers of woollen and three weavers of linen, two basket-makers, two common brewers, ten or twelve shop-keepers to furnish chandlery and grocery wares, and as many for drapery and mercery, over and above what they could work.

    From London to Land's End 2003

  • This especially respects those people, who deal in heavy goods, as wholesale grocers, salters, brasiers, iron-merchants, wine-merchants, and the like; but does not exclude the dealers in woollen manufactures, and especially in mercery goods of all sorts, the dealers in which generally manage their business in this manner.

    A Tour through the Eastern Counties of England, 1722 2003

  • This especially respects those people, who deal in heavy goods, as wholesale grocers, salters, brasiers, iron-merchants, wine-merchants, and the like; but does not exclude the dealers in woollen manufactures, and especially in mercery goods of all sorts, the dealers in which generally manage their business in this manner.

    A Tour through the Eastern Counties of England, 1722 2003

  • The name by no means implied, originally, a dealer in silks: for _mercery_ included all sorts of small wares, toys, and haberdashery; but, as several of this opulent company were merchants, and imported great quantities of rich silks from

    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 380, July 11, 1829 Various

  • The latter have a great many shops of mercery, haberdashery, and millinery.

    Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823 Maria Graham

  • I crave your gracious protection upon the way for me, my servant, and my mercery; for I have already had many perilous passages, and have now learned that Roger Club-foot, the robber-knight of Quercy, is out upon the road in front of me.

    The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902

  • I crave your gracious protection upon the way for me, my servant, and my mercery; for I have already had many perilous passages, and have now learned that Roger Club-foot, the robber-knight of Quercy, is out upon the road in front of me.

    The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902

  • I crave your gracious protection upon the way for me, my servant, and my mercery; for I have already had many perilous passages, and have now learned that Roger Club-foot, the robber-knight of Quercy, is out upon the road in front of me.

    The White Company Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

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