mercer

See also: Mercer

English

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mercer (plural mercers)

A merchant dealing in fabrics and textiles, especially silks and other fine cloths.
- 1600, Ben Jonson, Cynthia's Revels
  ... Acolastus-Polypragmon-Asotus, is here present (by the help of his mercer, tailor, milliner, sempster, and so forth) at his designed hour...
- 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses
  He passed, dallying, the windows of Brown Thomas, silk mercers.

A merchant in fabrics and textiles