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Old-clothesman

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A dealer in used clothing.

    "Having confessed their guilt, on Tuesday in Passion-week, La Hotte, his brother, the sergeant, the locksmith, a shearman, and an old-clothesman called Martin de Coulogne, were ordered to be hanged on the gibbet at Paris by sentence of the provost of Paris."

  2. 2
    A person who wears old, cast-off clothing.

Etymology

From old + clothes + -man.

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