Meaning of old clothesman | Babel Free

Definitions

Noun. [B2]

Examples

““And if he be an old clothesman,” replied Margery, “any trade is better than the idle useless life you are leading, Jack Barnes, which will soon leave you without clothes to wear -- as to his beard, perhaps ere you have one, you may be called to account for all your sinful doings."”

“My first recollections of Old Clo' are entwined with the remembrance of a threat, very awful and terrifying to me then, of being imprisoned in the bag of an old clothesman, and forthwith conveyed away.”

“The old, old clothesman is, I am sorry to say, becoming every day a swan of blacker hue.”

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