Meanings of linen draper in English

One was a wholesale linen draper, another a pawnbroker and a third a schoolmaster.

To hoodwink the wary Jonah was a triumph-todeceive the confiding linen draper was a shame.

I have traced her to a shop at Frizinghall, kept by a linen draper named Maltby.

Twenty thousand francs were due to the modiste, thirty thousand to the linen draper, twelve thousand to the bootmaker.

Pope was the son of a retired linen draper, who lived in a pleasant country house near the Windsor Forest.

I hate myself sometimes and wish I was a grocer or a linen draper or even a soldier or sailor.

Allen, a linen draper of Richmond, £47, 5s.

I asked him what his business was, and he said he was a linen draper's assistant, as I told you just now.

I very quickly discovered that in Mr. Judson the linen draper I had to deal with a very different person from the Rev.

There were women peddlers selling hats and hosiery from door to door and women shopkeepers, booksellers, alehouse keepers, linen drapers, brewers, and ale- wives.