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mercers

mercers is the plural of mercer.

Meaning of mercer

Noun

mercer (plural mercers)

  1. A merchant dealing in fabrics and textiles, especially silks and other fine cloths.
    • ... Acolastus-Polypragmon-Asotus, is here present (by the help of his mercer, tailor, milliner, sempster, and so forth) at his designed hour...1600 (first performance), Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Cynthias Reuels, or The Fountayne of Selfe-Loue. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby...

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Questions about mercers

What is mercers the plural of?
Mercers is the plural of mercer.

Words near mercers in the dictionary

  1. mercerizer
  2. mercerizers
  3. mercerizes
  4. mercerizing
  5. Merceron
  6. mercers
  7. Mercersburg theology
  8. mercership
  9. Mercerville
  10. mercery
  11. merch

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