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n. - A retail dealer in yard goods.

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Usage examples (35)
  • Lucy from that linendraper with whom she is dancing.
  • Very well; don't you remember when we had only one linendraper how dear shirts used to be?
  • The linendraper wishes that there should be only one linendraper; the grocer only one grocer; and so on through all the trades.
  • She succeeded in her mission and handed the document over to a city linendraper named Chaloner, who, in his turn, transferred it to Tompkins,
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