Meaning of linen-draper | Babel Free

Definitions

Noun. [C1]

Examples

“You will, of course, dress yourself up as a Dandy, and profit by the advice which I have⟳ just given to your demi-kinsman, the linen-draper.”

“The linen-draper at the corner under the town clock was divided between keeping an eye on his apprentices to see⟳ that they did not spar with yard sticks, and mentally criticising the ludicrous and meretricious window-dressing of his next-door neighbour.”

“The next month, the commissioners were convinced to retain⟳ the old linen-drapers as a guild but suggested linking them to the male guild of secondhand clothes dealers (fripiers-tailleurs), with a tariff of one-third the normal entrance fee for current entrants and the whole fee later.”

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