merchant tailor
merchant tailor noun: a tailor who keeps and sells materials for the garments which they make.
Noun
merchant tailor (plural merchant tailors)
- A tailor who keeps and sells materials for the garments which they make.
- Mrs. Aikin, foreseeing the distress of the family after they should have exhausted the father's earnings, and knowing that Agnes was a diligent and good girl, and had been well taught plain sewing in a public school, offered to instruct her in making vests, a very profitable business to those who...1836, Catharine Maria Sedgwick, The Poor Rich Man, and the Rich Poor Man
- One of the most interesting conflicts between capital and labor in current history was the strike of the journeymen tailors and the lockout on February 15, 1900. There were 700 men in the union, and thirty-five or forty merchant tailors for whom they worked. The men made certain requests of their...1900-1901, Nellie Mason Auten, “Sweating System in the Garment Trades in Chicago”, in The American Journal of Sociology, volume 6
Forms of merchant tailor
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Questions about merchant tailor
- What does merchant tailor mean?
- Merchant tailor means a tailor who keeps and sells materials for the garments which they make.
- What part of speech is merchant tailor?
- Merchant tailor is a noun.
- What is the plural of merchant tailor?
- The plural of merchant tailor is merchant tailors.
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