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What is another word for mercers?

Pronunciation: [mˈɜːsəz] (IPA)

Mercers are individuals or businesses that sell textiles and fabrics. If you want to use a different word to describe them, here are a few synonyms that you can consider. One option is to use the term "drapers," which refers to merchants who sell cloth and other fabrics and clothing accessories. Another synonym that you could use is "textile merchant," which is an accurate description of what mercers do. "Haberdashers" is another term that can apply to mercers, as it refers to businesses that sell clothing and accessories, particularly hats. Finally, you might use the phrase "fabric retailer" to describe someone who sells textiles and other materials, especially in a retail setting.
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A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

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Here were "the Company of mercers, the Company of Grocers, the Company of Drapers, the Company of Fishmongers, the Company of Goldsmiths, the Company of Skinners, the Company of Merchant-Taylors, the Company of Haberdashers, the Company of Salters, the Company of Ironmongers, the Company of Vintners, the Company of Clothworkers, the Company of Dyers, the Company of Brewers, the Company of Leathersellers, the Company of Pewterers, the Company of Cutlers," and others, including the companies to which belonged the city's cordwainers, barber-surgeons, masons, plumbers, innholders, cooks, coopers, bricklayers, fletchers, blacksmiths, joiners, weavers, plasterers, stationers, upholsterers, musicians, turners, and glaziers.
"The Virginia Company Of London, 1606-1624"
Wesley Frank Craven
This coach appeared no more, and the silk and cloth mercers had their stuffs redyed.
"The Memoirs of Madame de Montespan, Volume VI. Being the Historic Memoirs of the Court of Louis XIV."
Madame La Marquise De Montespan
The plots of land next to the mercers and Edwards were bought, the one by three or four Germans working as a company together, the other by Don Martinez, an enterprising young Spaniard; so that the Hardys began to be in quite an inhabited country.
"On the Pampas"
G. A. Henty

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