Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A bookbindery devoted to case-work or binding in cloth.
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Examples
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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
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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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