clothier
clothier
Definition
cloth·ier (klōt̸h′yər, klō′t̸hē ər)
noun
- a person who makes or sells clothes
- a dealer in cloth
Etymology: ME, one who makes or sells cloth
clothier
Usage Examples
Possessives
- house: In 1963 she moved into Grange House at Warley, a 17th century yeoman clothier's house.
Converse of object
- settle: We cannot have pharmacists who act like this. ' ' Top of page DoH hoping for judicial review to settle clothier?
Adjective modifier
- wealthy: In 1524 wealthy clothier Thomas Chapman left money for the glazing of a window.
- prosperous: B orn at Reading in Berkshire, William Laud was the tenth son of a prosperous clothier.
- poor: I William Petty was born May 26, 1623, at Romsey, in Hampshire, where his father was a poor clothier.
- old: Dragging her feet across the creaking parquet floor around an old clothiers dummy, her mouth full of pins.
Modifies a noun
- business: In 1810, at twenty years of age, he entered partnership in a clothier business with Matthew Paterson.
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