Definition of "linendraper" [linendraper]

• A retailer of fabrics. (noun)

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• "Women were there in great numbers: young work-girls, all rosy, with white linen, and clean petticoats, who tripped along briskly from one end of the glazed partition to the other, opening great attentive eyes, as if they were before the dressed shop window of a linendraper."
• "Lucy from that linendraper with whom she is dancing."
• "That purse-proud ex-linendraper, Mr. Yardley, with the yellow liveries, and the wife in red velvet?"