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Definition of Linendraper
1. Noun. A retail dealer in yard goods.
Generic synonyms: Draper
Lexicographical Neighbors of Linendraper
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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