Sentence examples for cloth merchant from inspiring English sources
"The charge is almost impossible," complains Jibrin Bala, a cloth merchant.
He was born in the Umbrian hill town of Assisi around 1181, the son of a rich cloth merchant.
She is 14 years old, and her father, a wealthy cloth merchant, has just returned from a buying trip.
Her husband is a cloth merchant and everything in their country house is of the best quality.
And she has left a document revealing her true identity as Alessandra, the daughter of a wealthy Florentine cloth merchant.
His father, Pietro, was a successful cloth merchant in a time when the mercantile class was on the rise and clothes very much made the man.
Honoré's mother came from a family of prosperous Parisian cloth merchants.
Returning to London, he became a business agent, mostly for cloth merchants, and a lawyer.
Demand for handiwork was disappearing, and hand-block printers were mired in debt to cloth merchants.
Other notable buildings are the Gewandhaus (cloth merchants' hall; 1522 36), the 15th-century town hall, and Osterstein Castle (1565 85).
Marcel came of a family of cloth merchants, his grandfather having been the wealthy Pierre Marcel (d. 1305), whose commercial enterprises covered all Europe.
