clothier

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

A man whose occupation is to full and dress cloth.--Webster. In England, a clothier is one who makes clothes, which seems to have been the meaning of the word in the time of Shakspeare. Mr. Pickering observes that "although we use clothier for fuller, yet the place where the cloth is cleansed and dressed is called a fulling-mill."

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