rag trade

Example Sentences

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It is also a nod to London's famous rag trade - the city's fabric merchants, tailors and dressmakers who once dominated the area where the Barbican Centre now stands.

From BBC • Apr. 19, 2024

Before long, her place among the elites of the rag trade was secure.

From New York Times • Sep. 24, 2022

In Uganda, she photographed the literal signs of the rag trade — as in: the painted, storefront signs that advertise used clothing from the U.S.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 14, 2018

I began as a secretary and worked in the rag trade in a showroom in the West End.

From The Guardian • Sep. 6, 2014

I mean," said the other, "I 'm in the rag trade, and we supply the paper-mills; and that's why my brother Sam lives away in Italy.

From Tony Butler by Lever, Charles James