Show haberdasher jorj I 1 supposed oed to mean of valo the word haberdasher first appears in the language na coming from baber tas the name of a fabric mentioned in the liber albea with wool can vas and felt as subject to customs duty about 1119 A parallel and al most contemporary list has caber tas sherle the word ie supposed to mean things of little value small wares euch as buttons ana derives it from the icelandic hyper bask trum perr pedlars waree la a register of burials 0 ware lu we have one entry ill chael london haberdasher of hatte probably thie being the first material of which hata were made chambers gives another meaning to the biord say a it la derived from the ancient name for a neck cloth which la derived from beard and tache a waa originally a cloth ot a particular kind the width of which was settled by magna charta benco a haberdasher was the seller of baber tae eerie london answers |