rug merchant
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5.5
- noun
- /rʌɡ ˈmɜːrʧənt/
:
comerciante de alfombras
- He started his career as a rug merchant, selling handmade rugs at local markets.
Examples
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A second grouping was arranged in a loose orbit of ambulance, computer salesman, caviar van; then more space and half an orbit that included Gypsy jewelers, rockers, rug merchants, and the Zhiguli.
Fiction book (1992) -
The rug merchant offered a wide selection of beautiful carpets from around the world.
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Now I learn you are a rug merchant... selling the same rug to two customers.
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A Persian rug merchant?
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Yuri described how he'd picked Jason Papparis, a rug merchant, who was at risk for contracting anthrax from the merchandise he imported.
Fiction book (1999) -
Not that Yara was looking for love, so she may have missed it, though in Paris that wouldn't happen; she would have felt its dreamy heat. "The value of a thing is how much you will pay for it," one rug merchant tells Anshe, looking at the stitching on his woven leather shoes.
Fiction book (1999) -
As a rug merchant, she travels often to find the finest materials for her customers.
Synonyms
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2.1
A person or company that buys and sells things to make money
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1.0
A person or company that offers goods for money
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2.7
A person or business that buys and sells items like art and cars
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2.1
A person or company that buys and sells goods, often in shops
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4.5
A person or company that buys and sells goods in shops
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3.7
A person who runs a shop that sells goods or services
A person or company that sells goods to people in small amounts for them to use
A person who buys and sells goods in a shop or market
A person or company that buys, sells, and moves goods
A person who trades goods with distant countries and takes big risks
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound 'rug merchant' is fully compositional: a B1 learner who knows 'rug' and 'merchant' can directly infer it denotes a person or business that sells rugs. This noun+noun/attributive construction is a regular, cross-linguistically common pattern (e.g., 'merchant of rugs' equivalents), so the meaning is immediately transparent from the constituents.
Etymology
Rug merchant is a simple name from market life: a merchant unrolling rugs in a busy market to show and sell them. That's why it means 'a person or business that sells rugs'.