单词 | quill merchant |
释义 | > as lemmasquill merchant quill merchant n. ΚΠ 1795 W. Butler Arithm. Questions (ed. 2) 178 Suppose a quill merchant should buy 20,000 quills at 3s. a thousand; paying 1s. 6d. a thousand for having them dutched; and 4s. 6d. a thousand for their being converted into pens, [etc.]? 1870 S. R. Wells How to Read Char. iv. 71 Although only the daughter of a quill merchant, she spoke her native language with extraordinary purity. 1990 Independent (Nexis) 18 Aug. 44 The last quill merchant ceased trading only in 1954, expunged at last by the steel nib and the fountain pen. 2008 S. Selfors Saving Juliet xxii. 199 Verona's only quill merchant had never heard of William Shakespeare. < as lemmas |
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