Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A dealer in textiles, especially silks.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A dealer in small wares, or in merchandise of any sort.
- noun A dealer in cloths of different sorts, especially silk.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun engraving Originally, a dealer in any kind of goods or wares; now restricted to a dealer in textile fabrics, as silks or woolens.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
merchant dealing in fabrics andtextiles , especially silks and otherfine cloths .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun British maker of printed calico cloth who invented mercerizing (1791-1866)
- noun a dealer in textiles (especially silks)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Matifat was in the ground-floor box exactly opposite with a friend of his, a silk-mercer named Camusot
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October 1, 2007