Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A dealer in silk fabrics; also, one employed in the manufacture of silks, or the manufacturer or director of a silk-mill.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A dealer in silks; a silk mercer.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A
male dealer insilk .
Etymologies
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Examples
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A comes continuantly to Pie-cornersaving your manhoodsto buy a saddle; and hes indited to dinner to the Lubbers Head in Lumbert-Street, to Master Smooths the silkman: I pray ye, since my exion is entered, and my case so openly known to the world, let him be brought in to his answer.
Act II. Scene I. The Second Part of King Henry the Fourth 1914
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There are, for example, Bottom, the weaver; Flute, the bellows-maker; Snout and Sly, tinkers; Quince, the carpenter; Snug, the joiner; Starveling, the tailor; Smooth, the silkman; Shallow and
Tolstoy on Shakespeare A Critical Essay on Shakespeare Leo Tolstoy 1869
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Sir William Blackstone was the fourth son of a silkman and citizen of London.
A Book About Lawyers John Cordy Jeaffreson 1866
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Sir John is going to dine with Master Smooth, the silkman.
A Dish of Orts : Chiefly Papers on the Imagination, and on Shakespeare George MacDonald 1864
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"Master Floriszoon, silkman, at the Black Boy in Holborn!" cried he, laughingly.
It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot Emily Sarah Holt 1864
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"He dwells near, Madam, in Broad Saint Giles '; his name, Andrew Leigh, and is a silkman."
It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot Emily Sarah Holt 1864
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A 'comes continuantly to Pie-corner -- saving your manhoods -- to buy a saddle; and he is indited to dinner to the Lubber's-head in Lumbert street, to Master Smooth's the silkman: I pray ye, since my exion is entered and my case so openly known to the world, let him be brought in to his answer.
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Master Smooth’s the silkman: I pray ye, since my exion is entered and my case so openly known to the world, let him be brought in to his answer.
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