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clothier Definition

cloth·ier (klōt̸hyər, klōt̸hē ər)

noun

  1. a person who makes or sells clothes
  2. 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.