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Webster 1913 Edition
Mercer
Mer′cer
,Noun.
Originally, a dealer in any kind of goods or wares; now restricted to a dealer in textile fabrics, as silks or woolens.
[Eng.]
Webster 1828 Edition
Mercer
MER'CER
,Noun.
One who deals in silks.
Definition 2024
Mercer
Mercer
See also: mercer
English
Proper noun
Mercer
- A surname.
- A village in New Zealand.
- A town in Maine.
- A city/town in Missouri.
- A city/village in North Dakota.
- A borough in Pennsylvania.
mercer
mercer
See also: Mercer
English
Noun
mercer (plural mercers)
- A merchant dealing in fabrics and textiles, especially silks and other fine cloths.
- 1600, Ben Jonson, Cynthia's Revels
- ... Acolastus-Polypragmon-Asotus, is here present (by the help of his mercer, tailor, milliner, sempster, and so forth) at his designed hour...
- 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses
- He passed, dallying, the windows of Brown Thomas, silk mercers.
- 1600, Ben Jonson, Cynthia's Revels