mercer

plural mercers

1. A merchant dealing in fabrics and textiles, especially silks and other fine cloths.

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

   1922 February 2, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC

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

   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

1. A surname.
2. A village on the Waikato River, Waikato region, New Zealand.
3. A number of places in the United States:
   1. A township in Mercer County, Illinois.
   2. A township in Adams County, Iowa.
   3. A town in Somerset County, Maine, named after Hugh Mercer.
   4. A minor city in Mercer County, Missouri.
   5. An unincorporated community in Edgecombe County, North Carolina.
   6. A minor city in McLean County, North Dakota.
   7. An unincorporated community in Mercer County, Ohio, named after Hugh Mercer; formerly, Milan.
   8. A township in Butler County, Pennsylvania.
   9. A borough, the county seat of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Named after Hugh Mercer.
   10. An unincorporated community in Madison County, Tennessee.
   11. A town and census-designated place therein, in Iron County, Wisconsin.