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- noun One whose occupation is to
dye cloth and the like.
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Examples
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Quoth one, “In my judgment, the dyer is bound to indemnify the ass-driver.”
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But this dyer was my comrade and neighbour in the city of
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Those who cannot use malachite green on account of its dearness, dye blue with the plant called dyer's weed, and thus obtain a most vivid green.
The Ten Books on Architecture Vitruvius Pollio
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The whitster meant what we should now call a dyer and cleaner.
The King's Daughters Emily Sarah Holt 1864
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The dyer was a swindler and a liar, an exceeding wicked wight, as if indeed his head-temples were hewn out of a boulder rock or fashioned of the threshold of a Jewish synagogue, nor was he ashamed of any shameful work he wrought amongst the folk.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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My lords, an old woman was saying, whose face and shape generally was so muffled in her garments that she looked like an animated heap of rags; my lords, the thing is as true as that I am La Falourdel, for forty years a householder on the Pont Saint-Michel, and paying regularly all rents and dues and ground taxesthe door opposite to the house of Tassin-Caillart, the dyer, which is on the side looking up the river.
I. The Crown Piece Changed into a Withered Leaf. Book VIII 1917
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'I think ye'd have to sind Gin'ral Merceer's to th' dyer's, 'I says.
Mr. Dooley: In the Hearts of His Countrymen Finley Peter Dunne 1901
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McCain is calling for a "suspension of his campaign so he can ride his white horse back to the capital, frollick hand in hand with everyone to get this" dyer "sitatuation, WHICH THEY, AND THEY being our corrupt officials, have created irresponsibly.
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McCain is calling for a "suspension of his campaign so he can ride his white horse back to the capital, frollick hand in hand with everyone to get this" dyer "sitatuation UNDER CONTROL … ..,
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It's a hopeless case: Barak the dyer watches telly with the remote in his hand; his peroxide-blond wife lies on the conjugal bed fully dressed, face to the wall.
frindley commented on the word dyer
An epitaph for Mr Dyer:
Dyer by name, and a dyer by trade,
Of a dire disease he a die-er was made.
But mark you well, what seems very quaint:
A die-er was he of a liver complaint.
March 20, 2009
sonofgroucho commented on the word dyer
That is brilliant!
March 20, 2009