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Linendraper

noun
1.
A retail dealer in yard goods.





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"Linendraper" Quotes from Famous Books



... was born in 1692, youngest of eight children of a linendraper at Wantage, in Berkshire. His father was a Presbyterian, and after education at the Wantage Free Grammar School Joseph Butler was sent to be educated for the Presbyterian ministry in a training academy at Gloucester, which was afterwards removed to Tewkesbury. There he had a friend and ...
— Human Nature - and Other Sermons • Joseph Butler
... at her heels into a linendraper's shop. There she took a seat, pitched her voice to the key of a lady's at a dinner-table, when speaking to her cavalier of the history or attire of some one present, and said, 'You are sure the illness was not ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith


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