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old clothesman

old clothesman is the alternative form of old-clothesman.

Meaning of old-clothesman

Noun

old-clothesman (plural old-clothesmen)

  1. A dealer in used clothing.
    • Having confessed their guilt, on Tuesday in Passion-week, La Hotte, his brother, the sergeant, the locksmith, a shearman, and an old-clothesman called Martin de Coulogne, were ordered to be hanged on the gibbet at Paris by sentence of the provost of Paris.1853, The Chronicles of Enguerrand De Monstrelet, page 389
  2. A person who wears old, cast-off clothing.

Forms of old clothesman

pluralold clothesmen

Questions about old clothesman

What is old clothesman the alternative form of?
Old clothesman is the alternative form of old-clothesman.

Words near old clothesman in the dictionary

  1. Old Christmas
  2. Old Church Slavic
  3. Old Church Slavonic
  4. Old City
  5. Old Cleeve
  6. old clothesman
  7. old clothesmen
  8. old cocoyam
  9. old cocoyams
  10. old codger
  11. old codgers

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