Haberdasher
, from hapertas, a cloth the width of which was settled by Magna Charta. A “hapertas-er” is the seller of hapertas-erie.
“To match this saint there was another,
As busy and perverse a brother,
An haberdasher of small wares
In politics and state affairs.”
Butler: Hudibras, iii. 2.
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Entry taken from
Dictionary of Phrase and Fable,
edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.