rag-trade

Here is Ms. Hughes on a religious sanctuary frequented by Athenian girls: "This sacred zone would have resembled an outpost of the rag-trade: when women died in childbirth their clothes were dedicated here; draped, hung and stored around the sanctuary; a limp gift to pitiless Artemis, to whom, probably just a few years from now, the girls would be calling out during the dreadful pangs of labor."

Handing Out Knives to Madmen Josiah Ober 2011

Because I'd overheard a lot of rag-trade business being discussed at the gala, and not so much about cars.

A Man Driven to Distraction Dan Neil 2011

Second, the shares are only a few pence above the 400 pence that rag-trade entrepreneur Philip Green offered for M&S four years ago.

Of all the Gauls: Sarkozy Seeks 2008

The Garment Center Synagogue still holds weekday services so office workers, journalists and even a few rag-trade survivors can say Kaddish for dead relatives.

NYT > Home Page By JOSEPH BERGER 2011

There is in Galveston a new-invented trade, called "the rag-trade," which is very profitable.

Monsieur Violet Frederick Marryat 1820

There is, in Galveston a new-invented trade, called "the rag-trade," which is very profitable.

Travels and Adventures of Monsieur Violet Frederick Marryat 1820

The son of a Scottish father who deserted the family home at an early age, and a Jewish mother who remarried into the rag-trade, McLaren was a product of that singular foundry of radical ideas and wayward creativity, the English art school.

Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010

The son of a Scottish father who deserted the family home at an early age, and a Jewish mother who remarried into the rag-trade, McLaren was a product of that singular foundry of radical ideas and wayward creativity, the English art school.

Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010

See the rag-trade city of Ahmedabad the main-city in the Indian state of Gujarat!

WN.com - Articles related to US urges India to address impediments to trade 2010

The son of a Scottish father who deserted the family home at an early age, and a Jewish mother who remarried into the rag-trade, McLaren was a product of that singular foundry of radical ideas and wayward creativity, the English art school.

Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010