cloth merchant

collocation in English

meaningsofclothandmerchant

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cloth
noun
uk
/klɒθ/us
/klɑːθ/
(a type of) ...
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merchant
noun[C]
uk
/ˈmɜː.tʃənt/us
/ˈmɝː.tʃənt/
a person whose job is to buy and sell products in large amounts, especially by trading with ...
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(Definition ofclothandmerchantfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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For instance, the spinner knew nothing in many cases of theclothmerchantand his problems; the worker knew nothing of the difficulties and problems of the different employers.
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Theclothmerchantpurchased the wool and provided it to the weaver, who sold his produce back to the merchant.
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He came from a middle-class family, and had entered the trade of linen draper, or wholesaleclothmerchant.
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He made a fortune as a wine andclothmerchant.
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Aclothmerchantmight additionally have owned a number of draper's shops.
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Related occupations include haberdasher, draper andclothmerchant, while clothier historically referred to someone who manufactured cloth, often under the domestic system.
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He worked as aclothmerchant.
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Theclothmerchantwho was a member of a city's weavers guild was allowed to sell cloth; he acted as a middleman between the tradesmen weavers and the purchaser.
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As the son of a wealthy familyclothmerchanthe led a privileged life and fought as a soldier, but radically changed his beliefs and practices after a spiritual awakening.
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Jourdain is a middle-aged bourgeois whose father grew rich as aclothmerchant.
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In particular, groups of weavers attacked cloth merchants accused of importing cheap silks and damasks.
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Schneider received a 2% commission on all the merchandise, which gave him enough capital to go into business on his own account as aclothmerchant.
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Baker was aclothmerchant.
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Cloth merchants from out of town would be sitting in the shops of the adatiyas at this time, having communicated their needs to the brokers before the market session began.
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The astonishing thing is that instead of levying the tax on a few hundred cloth merchants, the tax is now being levied on tens of thousands of small firms.
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Originally, the organisation was a trade association of wool and cloth merchants.
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Most of the immigrants in the district are either money lenders or cloth merchants.
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Cloth was extremely expensive and cloth merchants were often very wealthy.
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