Clothier vs Mercer - What's the difference?
clothier | mercer |
A merchant dealing in fabrics and textiles, especially silks and other fine cloths.
* 1600, Ben Jonson, Cynthia's Revels
* 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses
As a noun clothier
is a person who makes or sells cloth or clothing.As a proper noun mercer is
.mercer
English
Noun
(en noun)- ... Acolastus-Polypragmon-Asotus, is here present (by the help of his mercer , tailor, milliner, sempster, and so forth) at his designed hour...
- He passed, dallying, the windows of Brown Thomas, silk mercers .