Meaning & use
mercer
A dealer in fine cloth, especially silk, or a merchant who sells fabrics.
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The mercer displayed bolts of silk and velvet along the shelves of his shop.
Wealthy customers visited the mercer to order fabric for their wedding gowns.
A note on using this word
Mercer is now mostly historical, surviving today chiefly as a surname derived from the medieval trade in fine textiles.
Words with a similar meaning
fabric merchantdraper
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