Definitions
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- noun archaic A
retailer offabrics .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a retail dealer in yard goods
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Examples
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Women were there in great numbers: young work-girls, all rosy, with white linen, and clean petticoats, who tripped along briskly from one end of the glazed partition to the other, opening great attentive eyes, as if they were before the dressed shop window of a linendraper.
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Women were there in great numbers: young work-girls, all rosy, with white linen, and clean petticoats, who tripped along briskly from one end of the glazed partition to the other, opening great attentive eyes, as if they were before the dressed shop window of a linendraper.
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That purse-proud ex-linendraper, Mr. Yardley, with the yellow liveries, and the wife in red velvet?
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Lucy from that linendraper with whom she is dancing.
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His name was Shute, his father a linendraper in London, and served sheriff of the said city in very troublesome times.
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Guillaumin knew it, being secretly associated with the linendraper, from whom he always got capital for the loans on mortgages that he was asked to make.
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Suddenly she saw Monsieur Lheureux, the linendraper, come in through the gate.
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His name was Shute, his father a linendraper in London, and served sheriff of the said city in very troublesome times.
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He was by birth also of the Kingdom of Ireland, his parents being people of some condition, who gave him a very good education and afterwards put him out apprentice to a linendraper.
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The linendraper wishes that there should be only one linendraper; the grocer only one grocer; and so on through all the trades.
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