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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Chiefly British A dealer in textiles, especially silks.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A dealer in small wares, or in merchandise of any sort.
  2. n. A dealer in cloths of different sorts, especially silk.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A merchant dealing in fabrics and textiles, especially silks and other fine cloths.

GNU Webster's 1913

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

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. British maker of printed calico cloth who invented mercerizing (1791-1866)
  2. n. a dealer in textiles (especially silks)

Etymologies

  1. From Anglo-Norman marcer, mercer ("merchant, textile merchant"), from merz ("commodity") (from Latin merx). (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English, from Old French mercier, trader, from merz, merchandise, from Latin merx, merc-, merchandise. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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