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retailer|rɪˈteɪlə(r)|
Also α. 5–6 retaillour, 6 -tailour, 6–7 -taylor. β. 5–7 retailler, 6 -tayl(l)er.
[f. retail v. + -or 2, -er1.]
1. A retail dealer or trader; one who sells goods in small quantities.
α1444Rolls of Parlt. V. 108/2 The pouere common retaillours of vitailles. 1542–3Act 34 & 35 Hen. VIII, c. 7 The saide Retailloures of Wynes. 1591Florio 2nd Fruites 121 You retailours..may finde in your hart to deceaue any bodie. 1631T. Powell Tom of all Trades 164 The Maker was before the Retaylor. 1666–7Marvell Corr. Wks. (Grosart) II. 203 A Bill has bin read for setting the prices of wine as well upon the merchant as retaylor.
β1488Rolls of Parlt. VI. 421/2 Any Merchant,..Artyficer, Retailler, Inholder [etc.]. 1547Act I Edw. VI, c. 6 §1 Certaine parsons called Retaylers of the same Wooles. 1577Harrison England ii. v. (1877) i. 134 The fourth and last sort of people..are daie labourers.., and some retailers. 1633(title), A Proclamation restraining the abusive Venting of Tobacco.., that Retailers must take out a License. 1662Petty Taxes 13 It ought to be known..how many retailers are needful to make the subdistributions. 1704F. Fuller Med. Gymn. (1711) 94 The Female Retailers of Physick would..take it Ill, if..I should forget their Preparations. 1781Gibbon Decl. & F. xvii. (1787) II. 70 The diligent mechanic, and even the most obscure retailer of a sequestered village. 1837M. Donovan Dom. Econ. II. 337 The retailers almost invariably roast their coffee too little. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) III. 30 Retailers sit in the market-place to save the time of the producers.
2. One who repeats or relates.
1707Reflex. upon Ridicule 16 Retailers of Fooleries, Dealers in Scandal. 1749Fielding Tom Jones xvii. vii, Mrs. Miller..had received a full account from the faithful retailer Partridge. 1815W. H. Ireland Scribbleomania 150 The catalogue of..retailers of the wonderful. 1874L. Stephen Hours in Library (1892) I. x. 346 No one is..so generally unpopular as a clever retailer of gossip. |