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Vinony

mercer

noun

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈmɝsɚ/ / /ˈmɜːsə/

name

Etymology: English and Catalan surname, variant of Mercier.

  1. A surname.
  2. A village on the Waikato River, Waikato region, New Zealand.
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noun

Etymology: From Anglo-Norman marcer, mercer (“merchant, textile merchant”), from merz (“commodity”) (from Latin merx).

  1. A merchant dealing in fabrics and textiles, especially silks and other fine cloths.

    “... Acolastus-Polypragmon-Asotus, is here present (by the help of his mercer, tailor, milliner, sempster, and so forth) at his designed hour...”

    “He passed, dallying, the windows of Brown Thomas, silk mercers.”