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Hosier

noun
1.
A tradesman who sells hosiery and (in England) knitwear.





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"Hosier" Quotes from Famous Books



... abstracted her from the groveling cares of a butcher's shop, his home was made much more comfortable; and, instead of being confined to his father's business, he was placed in a stocking loom, with the view of bringing him up to the trade of a hosier, the poverty of his family still precluding ...
— The Poetical Works of Henry Kirke White - With a Memoir by Sir Harris Nicolas • Henry Kirke White
... idle man who really knows his business will visit his tailor's, his hosier's, his bootmaker's, his barber's much oftener and much more conscientiously than you do. You've got a mind above clothes—of course. So have I. I take a wicked pleasure in being picturesquely untidy. But I'm not a patient. My life is a great lark. Yours isn't. Yours is serious. ...
— Mr. Prohack • E. Arnold Bennett


Words linked to "Hosier" :   market keeper, storekeeper, tradesman, shopkeeper


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