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

You’ve said your piece about her rag trade, and this simply is not worth collapsing your marriage over.

From Slate • Oct. 24, 2013

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