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語源

From Anglo-Norman marcer, mercer (“merchant, textile merchant”), from merz (“commodity”) (from Latin merx).

発音

• (米国発音, Canada) IPA: /ˈmɝsɚ/
• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈmɜːsə/
• 韻: -ɜː(ɹ)sə(ɹ)

名詞

mercer (plural mercers)

1. A merchant dealing in fabrics and textiles, especially silks and other fine cloths.
   • 1600 (first performance), Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Cynthias Reuels, or The Fountayne of Selfe-Loue. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC:

     ... Acolastus-Polypragmon-Asotus, is here present (by the help of his mercer, tailor, milliner, sempster, and so forth) at his designed hour...

   • 1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:

     He passed, dallying, the windows of Brown Thomas, silk mercers.

派生語

参考

• haberdasher

アナグラム

• Cremer