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Answer for the clue "Commerce recently involving textile dealer ", 6 letters:
mercer

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Mercer is an English and Scottish surname. It is an occupational name, derived from the Old French word "mercier" or "merchier", meaning a merchant: originally one trading in textiles ( mercery ).

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 12c., "dealer in textile," from Old French mercier "shopkeeper, tradesman," from Vulgar Latin *merciarius , from Latin merx (see market (n.)).

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A merchant dealing in fabrics and textiles, especially silks and other fine cloths.

Gazetteer Word definitions in Gazetteer
Population (2000): 350761 Housing Units (2000): 133280 Land area (2000): 225.929010 sq. miles (585.153425 sq. km) Water area (2000): 2.906802 sq. miles (7.528582 sq. km) Total area (2000): 228.835812 sq. miles (592.682007 sq. km) Located within: New Jersey ...

Usage examples of mercer.

He had instead been cultivating his acquaintanceship with Mercer, a game plan that would have come to an abrupt end if the Lorrimores had deserted the trip, which they would have done at once if the Canadian had ploughed into their home-from-home.

If Anthony Bailor was the person under guard in a hospital, then it was likely that he had been the gunman who had aimed at me, shot Mercer, and killed the young receptionist in Chelsea on Sunday.

It was Heron himself, the magnanimous mercer, who having effected his escape with a well-hoarded purse, contrived to introduce himself into the house of Bethlem, at Shene, which was called the Priory.

They were mainly a boring lot: all the bumf about the train trip, a few newspaper pages about the races, then a newspaper cutting from a Cambridge local paper about the building of a new library in one of the colleges, thanks to the generosity of Canadian philanthropist Mercer P.

Recorder, William Cawle or Calley, draper, and John Kyme, mercer, commoners.

After them march the guilds and trades and trainbands with flying colours: coopers, bird fanciers, millwrights, newspaper canvassers, law scriveners, masseurs, vintners, trussmakers, chimneysweeps, lard refiners, tabinet and poplin weavers, farriers, Italian warehousemen, church decorators, bootjack manufacturers, undertakers, silk mercers, lapidaries, salesmasters, corkcutters, assessors of fire losses, dyers and cleaners, export bottlers, fellmongers, ticketwriters, heraldic seal engravers, horse repository hands, bullion brokers, cricket and archery outfitters, riddlemakers, egg and potato factors, hosiers and glovers, plumbing contractors.

Mercer had indicated the car standing at the end of the cul-de-sac and had asked Kummer to drive him back to his cottage on the White Walls estate.

Suppose Mercer had pushed the car onto the verge after Kummer was dead and had then walked back to Boarbridge station and had waited there for his own chauffeur, who naturally assumed that he had come down by his ordinary late train.

Against them are to be pitted, in reference to the question under discussion, only Mercer of Maryland, Bedford of Delaware, and Spaight of North Carolina, the record in each of whose cases is of doubtful implication.

She wrapped the small enamel pot with white towels while it was still hot and handed it to my mother to bring to Mercer Hospital for Sam.

He was considering morphia in connection with Miss Mercer and a village dispensary.

Latter with the morphia bottle in his hand, and I heard Miss Mercer tell him the stuff was dangerous.

You will remember it was shortly afterwards that Miss Mercer noticed that the morphia bottle had been moved.

Mercer was down in court with me for pretrial hearings in an old case when Mike beeped him.

Mercer and I had met before, a recidivist, a sexual predator who repeated his acts with the same language and sexual interests he had used in the past.