"linen-draper" meaning in English

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          "ref": "[c. 1800], J. Bisset, “An Haberdasher”, in Dandyism Displayed, or The Follies of the Ton; […], London: […] [John] Duncombe, […], →OCLC, page 13:",
          "text": "You will, of course, dress yourself up as a Dandy, and profit by the advice which I have just given to your demi-kinsman, the linen-draper.",
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          "ref": "1897, S. R. Crockett, chapter 33, in The Surprising Adventures of Sir Toady Lion with Those of General Napoleon Smith, New York: Frederick A. Stokes, page 252:",
          "text": "The linen-draper at the corner under the town clock was divided between keeping an eye on his apprentices to see that they did not spar with yard sticks, and mentally criticising the ludicrous and meretricious window-dressing of his next-door neighbour.",
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          "ref": "2007, Daryl M. Hafter, Women at Work in Preindustrial France, University Park, Pa.: The Pennsylvania State University Press, →ISBN, page 157:",
          "text": "The next month, the commissioners were convinced to retain the old linen-drapers as a guild but suggested linking them to the male guild of secondhand clothes dealers (fripiers-tailleurs), with a tariff of one-third the normal entrance fee for current entrants and the whole fee later.",
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          "ref": "1897, S. R. Crockett, chapter 33, in The Surprising Adventures of Sir Toady Lion with Those of General Napoleon Smith, New York: Frederick A. Stokes, page 252:",
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