Meaning of old clothesman | Babel Free

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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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