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
It was a popular destination for the rag trade and had a waiting list of tenants, but ordinary shoppers weren’t invited in, so there no were big, welcoming signs out front.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 9, 2018
His original career path veered towards the rag trade, a common destination for poor kids from Williamsburg, Brooklyn, where he grew up.
From The Guardian • Feb. 10, 2017
And although Sam M'Gruder, the junior partner in the rag trade, was not a very romantic sort of character, yet did he feel an intense sympathy for him.
From Tony Butler by Lever, Charles James
