The word haberdasher appears in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.[3] It is derived from the Anglo-French word hapertas meaning "small ware", a word of unknown origin.[4] A haberdasher would retail small wares, the goods of the peddler, while a mercer would specialize in "linens, silks, fustian, worstedpiece-goods and bedding".[5]
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The word haberdasher appears in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.[3] It is derived from the Anglo-French word hapertas meaning "small ware", a word of unknown origin.[4] A haberdasher would retail small wares, the goods of the peddler, while a mercer would specialize in "linens, silks, fustian, worsted piece-goods and bedding".[5]
Saint Louis IX, King of France 1226–70, is the patron saint of French haberdashers.[6][7] In Belgium and elsewhere in Continental Europe, Saint Nicholas remains their patron saint, while Saint Catherine was adopted by the Worshipful Company of Haberdashers in the City of London.[8]
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.