Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A dealer in textiles, especially silks.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A dealer in small wares, or in merchandise of any sort.
  • noun A dealer in cloths of different sorts, especially silk.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun engraving Originally, a dealer in any kind of goods or wares; now restricted to a dealer in textile fabrics, as silks or woolens.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A merchant dealing in fabrics and textiles, especially silks and other fine cloths.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun British maker of printed calico cloth who invented mercerizing (1791-1866)
  • noun a dealer in textiles (especially silks)

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English, from Old French mercier, trader, from merz, merchandise, from Latin merx, merc-, merchandise.]

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From Anglo-Norman marcer, mercer ("merchant, textile merchant"), from merz ("commodity") (from Latin merx).

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  • from Middlemarch

    October 1, 2007