单词 | piece-broker |
释义 | piece-brokern. Now historical. A person who deals in remnants of cloth for repairing clothes, etc. 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 1697 London Gaz. No. 3304/3 One Gawen Hardy.., Piece-Broker, was..Indicted for Felony. 1720 J. Strype Stow's Surv. of London (rev. ed.) II. iv. vii. 118/2 Hollowel Street..a Place inhabited by divers Salesmen and Piece-Brokers. 1771 Ann. Reg. 1770 143/2 Mr. Muzere, aged 90, many years an eminent piece-broker, who never trusted any money out at interest, but put it into an iron chest. 1874 A. Rich Dict. Rom. & Greek Antiq. (ed. 4) 144/1 Centonarii, piece-brokers, and persons who made and sold pieces of patch-work. 1902 Times 6 Oct. 7/5 Extensive buildings in Buxton-street, Spitalfields, occupied by L. Grosman, cabinet maker, L. Goldstein, piece broker, [etc.]. 1989 Econ. Hist. Rev. 42 349 Tailor/piecebroker. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1697 |
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