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

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

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

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

From Slate • Oct. 24, 2013

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