old-clothesman

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old-clothesman

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From old + clothes + -man.

noun old-clothesmen

A dealer in used clothing. Having confessed their guilt, on Tuesday in Passion-week, La Hotte, his brother, the sergeant, the locksmith, a shearman, and an old-clothesman called Martin de Coulogne, were ordered to be hanged on the gibbet at Paris by sentence of the provost of Paris.
A person who wears old, cast-off clothing.

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@misc{old_clothesman_2026,
  title = {old-clothesman},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/old-clothesman},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}