Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A bookbindery devoted to case-work or binding in cloth.

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Examples

  • That he now, to ingratiate himself with this Third Estate, 'opened a cloth-shop in Marseilles,' and for moments became a furnishing tailor, or even the fable that he did so, is to us always among the pleasant memorabilities of this era.

    The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838

  • Of Draper Lecointre, how he shut his cloth-shop hard by, and stepped forth, one need hardly speak.

    The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838

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