Mercer - What does it mean?
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A merchant dealing in fabrics and textiles, especially silks and other fine cloths.
* 1600, Ben Jonson, Cynthia's Revels
* 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses
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 .
