(British) a retail dealer in yard goods

Usage examples of linendraper.

Suddenly she saw Monsieur Lheureux, the linendraper, come in through the gate.

Monsieur Guillaumin knew it, being secretly associated with the linendraper, from whom he always got capital for the loans on mortgages that he was asked to make.

He would have her save out of her washerwoman and linendraper, and yet have a smart gown and go in a brougham.

Gay, who had been apprenticed to a linendraper, managed to gain notice by his poetical talents, and was taken up by various great people.

They were two rich linendrapers, who received us with some embarrassment.

From the moment when he is first elected a member of the Worshipful Company of Linendrapers he can see it coming.

He was dedicated to this from birth, or anyhow from the moment when he was first elected a member of the Worshipful Company of Linendrapers, and he has been preparing that wooden expression ever since.