mercern.

Brit.

/ˈməːsə/, U.S.

/ˈmərsər/

Forms: Middle English meercere, Middle English mercere, Middle English mersier, Middle English–1500s merser, Middle English– mercer, 1500s marsar; Scottish pre-1700 mercer, pre-1700 mersar, pre-1700 mersare.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French marcer.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman marcer, marser, mercer, merchere merchant, spec. a dealer in textile fabrics (compare Old French mercier (late 11th cent.)) < merz (c980 in Old French; < classical Latin merc- , merx commodity: see market n.) + -er -er suffix². Compare post-classical Latin mercerius , mercerus , merciarius (from 11th or 12th cent. in continental sources, from 12th cent. in British sources, also mercarius , mercer ). Compare Portuguese merceeiro (13th cent.), Italian merciaio (a1348 as merciari , plural), Spanish mercero (1605 < Catalan mercer (13th or 14th cent.)). With use denoting a dealer in haberdashery compare Old French, Middle French (menu or petit ) mercier (early 13th cent.), and Old Occitan mercer (c1140), mercier (1246). Compare mercery n.Recorded early in England in Latin documents apparently as surname, though it is unclear whether these are to be interpreted as showing the Middle English, Anglo-Norman, or post-classical Latin word: compare Stephanus Mercer (c1123), Gamel Mercer (1168), Osgot Mercer (1187).

Now chiefly historical.

1. A person who deals in textile fabrics, esp. silks, velvets, and other fine materials; spec. a member of the Worshipful Company of Mercers, a livery company of the City of London. Also (occasionally): a dealer in haberdashery.Also as the second element in compounds, as cloth-, silk-, stuff-mercer, etc.: see the first element.In provincial towns in the early modern period, the term mercer was generally applied to retail tradesmen of high social status and economic importance, who had invariably served an apprenticeship and who sold a wide range of goods not produced in the locality.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > trader > traders or dealers in specific articles > [noun] > in textiles, clothing, or yarns

mercerc1230

clothier1362

draper1362

woolman1390

yarn-chopper1429

line-draper1436

Welsh drapera1525

telerc1540

purple-seller1547

linen-draper1549

staplera1552

silkman1553

woollen-draper1554

wool-driver1555

woolster1577

linener1616

woolner1619

linen-man1631

ragman1649

rag merchant1665

slop-seller1665

bodice-seller1672

piece-broker1697

wool-stapler1709

cloth-man1723

Manchester-man1755

fleece-merchanta1774

rag dealer1777

man's mercer1789

keelman1821

man-mercer1837

cotton-broker1849

slopper1854

shoddyite1865

costumier1886

cotton-man1906

c1230 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Corpus Cambr.) (1962) 36 Þe wrecche poure peoddere mare nurð he makeð to ȝeien his sape þen þe riche mercer al his deorewurðe ware.

c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. v. 255 I..haue ymade many a knyȝte bothe mercere and drapere.

1463–4 in Manners & Househ. Expenses Eng. (1841) 248 Payd ffor x ȝerdys sarsynet to Thomas Rowson, merser in Chepesyde, xx s.

1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. FFFiv Nother marchaunt, ne mercer, groser, draper, ne yet any other craft.

1554 H. Machyn Diary (1848) 71 The compene of the Clarkes, and of the Marsars.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) iv. iii. 10 Then is there heere one M^r Caper, at the suite of Master Three-Pile the Mercer, for some foure suites of Peach-colour'd Satten.

1696 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Mercer, in the City one that deals only in Silks and Stuffs; In Country Towns, one that Trades in all sorts of Linen, Woollen, Silk, and Grocery Wares.

a1704 T. Brown Pleasant Epist. in Wks. (1730) I. 110 Call back our fugitive mercers from Covent-garden.

1778 F. Burney Evelina I. x. 31 The shops are really very entertaining, especially the mercers.

1861 H. Mayhew London Labour (new ed.) II. 475/1 A row of pins, arranged as neatly as in the papers sold at the mercers'.

1872 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch II. iv. xxxv. 196 This second cousin was a Middlemarch mercer.

1937 L. Mann Murder in Sydney xxv. 261 In a cheap mercer's shop he bought a black workman's shirt.

1980 Times Lit. Suppl. 12 Sept. 998/2 He got a job at Gagelin, the silk mercers, who supplied the new Empress Eugenie..with the materials for her trousseau.

1997 Cityview (Corporation of London) Oct. (Liverylive Suppl.) 2 (heading) Mercers sponsor design awards.

†2. in the mercer's book and variants: (esp. of a gentleman or gallant) in debt. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > management of money > insolvency > indebtedness > [noun] > a debt > proverbially

in the mercer's book1591

pound of flesh1787

1591 ‘A. Foulweather’ Wonderfull Astrol. Prognostication sig. D1^v Diuers young Gentlemen shall creepe further into the Mercers Booke in a Moneth, then they can get out in a yere.

1591 R. Greene Farewell to Folly To Gent. Stud. sig. A4 Such wags as..haue marched in the Mercers booke to please their Mistris eye with their brauerie.

1602 B. Jonson Poetaster iii. i. sig. D3^v Crisp. How many yards of Veluet dost thou thinke they conteyne? Horace... Faith Sir, your Mercers booke Will tell you with more patience, then I can.

1675 Char. Town-gallant 4 Thence he posted to one of the Inns of Court, but..never read six Lines in Littleton,..& was more in his Mercers Books than in Cocks, or Plowdens.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	mercer
释义	mercern. Brit. /ˈməːsə/, U.S. /ˈmərsər/ Forms: Middle English meercere, Middle English mercere, Middle English mersier, Middle English–1500s merser, Middle English– mercer, 1500s marsar; Scottish pre-1700 mercer, pre-1700 mersar, pre-1700 mersare. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French marcer. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman marcer, marser, mercer, merchere merchant, spec. a dealer in textile fabrics (compare Old French mercier (late 11th cent.)) < merz (c980 in Old French; < classical Latin merc- , merx commodity: see market n.) + -er -er suffix². Compare post-classical Latin mercerius , mercerus , merciarius (from 11th or 12th cent. in continental sources, from 12th cent. in British sources, also mercarius , mercer ). Compare Portuguese merceeiro (13th cent.), Italian merciaio (a1348 as merciari , plural), Spanish mercero (1605 < Catalan mercer (13th or 14th cent.)). With use denoting a dealer in haberdashery compare Old French, Middle French (menu or petit ) mercier (early 13th cent.), and Old Occitan mercer (c1140), mercier (1246). Compare mercery n.Recorded early in England in Latin documents apparently as surname, though it is unclear whether these are to be interpreted as showing the Middle English, Anglo-Norman, or post-classical Latin word: compare Stephanus Mercer (c1123), Gamel Mercer (1168), Osgot Mercer (1187). Now chiefly historical. 1. A person who deals in textile fabrics, esp. silks, velvets, and other fine materials; spec. a member of the Worshipful Company of Mercers, a livery company of the City of London. Also (occasionally): a dealer in haberdashery.Also as the second element in compounds, as cloth-, silk-, stuff-mercer, etc.: see the first element.In provincial towns in the early modern period, the term mercer was generally applied to retail tradesmen of high social status and economic importance, who had invariably served an apprenticeship and who sold a wide range of goods not produced in the locality. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trader > traders or dealers in specific articles > [noun] > in textiles, clothing, or yarns mercerc1230 clothier1362 draper1362 woolman1390 yarn-chopper1429 line-draper1436 Welsh drapera1525 telerc1540 purple-seller1547 linen-draper1549 staplera1552 silkman1553 woollen-draper1554 wool-driver1555 woolster1577 linener1616 woolner1619 linen-man1631 ragman1649 rag merchant1665 slop-seller1665 bodice-seller1672 piece-broker1697 wool-stapler1709 cloth-man1723 Manchester-man1755 fleece-merchanta1774 rag dealer1777 man's mercer1789 keelman1821 man-mercer1837 cotton-broker1849 slopper1854 shoddyite1865 costumier1886 cotton-man1906 c1230 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Corpus Cambr.) (1962) 36 Þe wrecche poure peoddere mare nurð he makeð to ȝeien his sape þen þe riche mercer al his deorewurðe ware. c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. v. 255 I..haue ymade many a knyȝte bothe mercere and drapere. 1463–4 in Manners & Househ. Expenses Eng. (1841) 248 Payd ffor x ȝerdys sarsynet to Thomas Rowson, merser in Chepesyde, xx s. 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. FFFiv Nother marchaunt, ne mercer, groser, draper, ne yet any other craft. 1554 H. Machyn Diary (1848) 71 The compene of the Clarkes, and of the Marsars. a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) iv. iii. 10 Then is there heere one M^r Caper, at the suite of Master Three-Pile the Mercer, for some foure suites of Peach-colour'd Satten. View more context for this quotation 1696 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Mercer, in the City one that deals only in Silks and Stuffs; In Country Towns, one that Trades in all sorts of Linen, Woollen, Silk, and Grocery Wares. a1704 T. Brown Pleasant Epist. in Wks. (1730) I. 110 Call back our fugitive mercers from Covent-garden. 1778 F. Burney Evelina I. x. 31 The shops are really very entertaining, especially the mercers. 1861 H. Mayhew London Labour (new ed.) II. 475/1 A row of pins, arranged as neatly as in the papers sold at the mercers'. 1872 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch II. iv. xxxv. 196 This second cousin was a Middlemarch mercer. 1937 L. Mann Murder in Sydney xxv. 261 In a cheap mercer's shop he bought a black workman's shirt. 1980 Times Lit. Suppl. 12 Sept. 998/2 He got a job at Gagelin, the silk mercers, who supplied the new Empress Eugenie..with the materials for her trousseau. 1997 Cityview (Corporation of London) Oct. (Liverylive Suppl.) 2 (heading) Mercers sponsor design awards. †2. in the mercer's book and variants: (esp. of a gentleman or gallant) in debt. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > insolvency > indebtedness > [noun] > a debt > proverbially in the mercer's book1591 pound of flesh1787 1591 ‘A. Foulweather’ Wonderfull Astrol. Prognostication sig. D1^v Diuers young Gentlemen shall creepe further into the Mercers Booke in a Moneth, then they can get out in a yere. 1591 R. Greene Farewell to Folly To Gent. Stud. sig. A4 Such wags as..haue marched in the Mercers booke to please their Mistris eye with their brauerie. 1602 B. Jonson Poetaster iii. i. sig. D3^v Crisp. How many yards of Veluet dost thou thinke they conteyne? Horace... Faith Sir, your Mercers booke Will tell you with more patience, then I can. 1675 Char. Town-gallant 4 Thence he posted to one of the Inns of Court, but..never read six Lines in Littleton,..& was more in his Mercers Books than in Cocks, or Plowdens. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1230
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