mercery

Cloth was already being imported to England before the invasion through the mercery trade.

He rose to be in charge of the mercery department and lived above the store, as was common in the era.

The fellow pointed down to the corner of the Mercery and Lawrence Street.

The business prospered and in 1864 a mercery warehouse, Edinburgh House, was opened.

They rose through the steaming traffic levels and flitted through the towers of the Mercery.

'I have a letter for our banker, Master Waller in the Mercery.

The term mercery later extended to goods made of these and the sellers of those goods.

The towers of the Mercery caught the last light, burnt with a few moments of sad glory, then faded.

Robic and his wife lived in the suburb of Wissous and bought his mother a mercery shop there.

Across the Chant rose the towers of the Mercery; the lesser buildings up and down the river formed a lesser bulk.

Mercer (occupation), a merchant or trader, more specifically a merchant who deals in textiles (mercery)

From 1978 to 2001 Aptroot was together with his brother director of the Jonco-groep, a wholesale in mercery in Rotterdam.

F. (2005) The Mercery of London: Trade, Goods and People, 1130-1578.

Mercery (from French mercerie, the notions trade) initially referred to silk, linen, and fustian textiles imported to England in the 12th century.

Now too restless to sit, he left the cafe, crossed Esterhazy Square, walked slowly up Rambold Street into the Mercery.

They set up the Mercery and Glove Depot, at 318 George Street, which John managed for £200 per annum plus half the profits of the business.

With the barge entering the estuary of the Chant and the towers of the Mercery rising through the haze, Hesper Wellsey went catto*.

Five years later he and his younger brother, Preston Robert Gowing (1839-1900), opened the Mercery and Glove Depot in George Street, Sydney.

I had now used most of my silver and, despite our profits, had to draw heavily, even borrow some more from the goldsmith, Waller, in his musty old shop in Mercery.

In 1912 Trumper opened "Victor Trumper and Dodge Ltd.", a sports and mercery store in George Street, Sydney.

'I'd Be Sorry to Lose My Job' "I'm afraid," said Jaroslava Juzova, a saleswoman in a small mercery shop in the center of Prague.

They pushed on up the Mercery, standing aside as a group of debtors from the Marshalsea, linked by chains, moved through the crowd, begging for alms both for themselves and other inmates.

At 17 he went to London, and entered the large silk mercery establishment of his uncle, Mr. Harding, at Waterloo House, Pall Mall, where he remained some years.

The Penguin Guide to Jazz awarded the album 3 stars stating "Mercery, Mercy, Mercy is a hard swinging live album with one of Cannon's hottest outings on "Sticks"".

At the conclusion of the 1939 season, in which he played in the second of Claremont's three consecutive premierships, Clarke purchased a mercery business in Busselton, and thus did not play in the competition in 1940.