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/ˈmɝsɚ/ · noun
A merchant dealing in fabrics and textiles, especially silks and other fine cloths..
... Acolastus-Polypragmon-Asotus, is here present (by the help of his mercer, tailor, milliner, sempster, and so forth) at his designed hour...
He passed, dallying, the windows of Brown Thomas, silk mercers.
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Mercer means A merchant dealing in fabrics and textiles, especially silks and other fine cloths..
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... Acolastus-Polypragmon-Asotus, is here present (by the help of his mercer, tailor, milliner, sempster, and so forth) at his designed hour...
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