| 单词 | rag merchant |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrag merchant rag merchant n. a rag dealer; (formerly also, derogatory) †a banker or a draper (obsolete). ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trader > traders or dealers in specific articles > [noun] > in textiles, clothing, or yarns mercerc1230 clothier1362 draper1362 woolman1390 yarn-chopper1429 line-draper1436 Welsh drapera1525 telerc1540 purple-seller1547 linen-draper1549 staplera1552 silkman1553 woollen-draper1554 wool-driver1555 woolster1577 linener1616 woolner1619 linen-man1631 ragman1649 rag merchant1665 slop-seller1665 bodice-seller1672 piece-broker1697 wool-stapler1709 cloth-man1723 Manchester-man1755 fleece-merchanta1774 rag dealer1777 man's mercer1789 keelman1821 man-mercer1837 cotton-broker1849 slopper1854 shoddyite1865 costumier1886 cotton-man1906 1665 R. Head Eng. Rogue I. v. 39 Our Vestments look'd like the Gleanings of a Rag-merchants Yard. 1790 Times 5 Feb. 4/3 A Substantial Freehold Brick-Built Dwelling House..let to Mrs. Agnes Steel, Rag Merchant..at Thirty Pounds Per Annum. 1821 W. Cobbett Rural Rides in Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 17 Nov. 1199 The country rag-merchants have now very little to do. They have no discounts. What they have out, they owe; it is so much debt. 1862 ‘F. G. Trafford’ Too much Alone II. ii. 42 Rag merchant. [Note] The above expression does not refer to a marine-store dealer, but simply to a dealer in Manchester goods, who is frequently thus designated in the City. 1939 F. Thompson Lark Rise vii. 133 A few worn-out garments..would be sold to the rag merchant. 2006 Irish Times (Nexis) 8 Nov. 17 There has been an increase in door-to-door collections carried out by commercial rag merchants asking for unwanted clothing. < as lemmas |
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