Crossword clues for furrier
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Furrier \Fur"ri*er\, n. [Cf. F. fourreur.] A dealer in furs; one who makes or sells fur goods.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"dealer or dresser in furs," late 13c., as a surname, ffurrere, via Anglo-French from Old French forreor "furrier," from forrer "to line or trim with fur" (see fur (n.)).
Wiktionary
a. (en-comparativefurry) n. A person who sells, makes, repairs, alters, cleans, or otherwise deals in clothing made of fur.
WordNet
See furry
n. someone whose occupation is making or repairing fur garments [syn: cloakmaker]
Wikipedia
- redirect Fur_clothing#Processing_of_fur
Usage examples of "furrier".
He almost made it to Doma, when one of them, much taller and furrier than he and with glowing yellow-black eyes, got a hand on him.
The summer pelts of isleans came in a variety of colors and patterns, with the fawn and gray stripes being the most prized by the furriers of Karstok.
Once-elegant apartment buildings stood next to scrapyards, and where there had been furriers and movie palaces there were now blood banks and methadone clinics and Mother Waddles Perpetual Mission.
It seemed to say that the glittering shops of the jewelers, the milliners, the confectioners, the florists, the picture-dealers, the furriers, the makers of rare and costly antiquities, retail traders in luxuries of life, were beneath the notice of a house that had its foundations in the high finance, and was built literally and figuratively in the shadow of St.
The plan was simple: they would enter as furriers just arriving from trading in the wilderlands, and would offer to show the Queen the finest of the treasures they had obtained.
The true conquest of northern Arctica lay in yerba hay, in bathyrhiza wood, in pericoup and glycophyllon, and eventually, when the market had expanded with population and industry, in chalcanthemum for city florists and pelts of cage-bred rover for city furriers.
The true conquest of northern Arctica lay in yerba hay, in bathyrhiza wood, in pericoup and glycophyllon and eventually, when the market had expanded with population and industry, in chalcanthemum for city florists and pelts of cage-bred rover for city furriers.
At Paris, the drapers, mercers, grocers, furriers, hatters and jewelers formed the six bodies of merchants.