Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who is employed in finishing cloth for the market, as napping, shearing, brushing, pressing, etc.
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Examples
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Now, I'm not a cloth-dresser myself, but by trade a tailor.
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William Lockwood, his father, was a cloth-dresser, and worked on Almondbury common, about a mile from his home, earning but a scanty living for the family.
Little Abe Or, The Bishop of Berry Brow F. Jewell
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The word here treated new, in the original means rude, undressed, or not fulled or cleansed by the cloth-dresser.
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I should like to show you an English spinner or cloth-dresser at work; he is a perfect automaton, occupied day in and day out without a moment's relaxation, and the tenth hour as well as the first.
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The cloth-dresser, also, by the aid of this sense, not only marks the nicest shades of texture in examining cloths of different qualities, but in many instances learns to distinguish
Popular Education For the use of Parents and Teachers, and for Young Persons of Both Sexes Ira Mayhew 1854
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