Definition of Linendraper

1. Noun. A retail dealer in yard goods.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Linendraper

linehaul
lineic
lineless
linelike
lineman
linemate
linemates
linemen
linemode
linen
linen basket
linen closet
linen closets
linen paper
linen tester
linendraper (current term)
linener
lineners
linenfold
linenlike
linens
lineny
lineolate
lineout
lineouts
liner
liner notes
liner train
linerboard
linerboards

Literary usage of Linendraper

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Fortunes of Nigel by Walter Scott (1878)
"I have been as sick of that captain's buff belt and red doublet for this month past as e'er I was of aught; and now I hope this bold linendraper will cudgel ..."

2. Fox's Book of Martyrs; Or, The Acts and Monuments of the Christian Church by John Foxe, John Malham, T. Pratt (1830)
"... of London, was a linendraper. He had daily expected to be taken by God's adversaries, and this came to pass on the 26th of April, 1555, ..."

3. The Publications of the Harleian Society by Harleian Society (1879)
"... in the east 17 Anne wile of Richard Acton, linendraper, in the Middle Church yard Isle 20 Henry son of Henry Twyford, in the west Churchyard 18 Alice ..."

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