Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A city or town where wool was formerly brought to the king's staple for sale.
- noun The fiber or pile of wool. See
staple , 7.
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Examples
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It is always striking to see this on some tranquil night, as I do now -- and Calais is oftenest seen at midnight -- and think of the Earl of Warwick, the 'deputy,' and of the English wool-staple merchants who traded here.
A Day's Tour A Journey through France and Belgium by Calais, Tournay, Orchies, Douai, Arras, Béthune, Lille, Comines, Ypres, Hazebrouck, Berg Percy Hethrington Fitzgerald 1879
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