Up to about the middle of the nineteenth century, the furrier continued to be the only factor of any importance in the fur trade.
As formerly, all the work connected with the production of fur apparel from the raw furs, was done by the master furrier and his apprentices.
However, with the great expansion of the fur trade about this time, it became impossible for the individual furrier to do everything himself, and keep up with the requirements of his customers.
She's a Miss Gibson, and her father's a furrier in Cheapside.
It turned out that he was the only son of the great wholesale furrier in Ludgate Hill, the largest house of the kind in the world, with a branch in New York and another in Quebec or Montreal.
As furrier to the Court for forty years past, he had witnessed all the revolutions in the reign of Francis I.
I told the first soldier, who made as though he would stop me, that I had come on duty to wait on the two Queens, and that my father isfurrier to their Majesties.
Give your boy some money," the furrier called out to his wife.
Defend him stoutly on that score," said the furrier to the goldsmith.
When Mistress Lecamus had left the room, the furrier took his son by a button and led him to the corner of the room which formed the angle towards the bridge.
The furrier was determined, come what might, to remain faithful to the Church, the Monarchy, and the Parlement, but he was secretly well content that his son should join the Reformation.
I have been furrier to the Court since the time of the late King Louis XII.
The furrier dressed himself as a poor man, at the risk of being seized as a spy, and favored by this disguise, he mingled with the beggars who stood by the wayside.
An engraving of the /Encyclopédie/ presents us in the nick of time with a faithful reproduction of a shop of a furrier of the last century.
The furrier was in a large way of business, a man of means who liked to see his wife well dressed; therefore she was able to cut an elegant figure at Court.
Monsieur Felix Violle, a Frenchman who had become a naturalised Russian, and who carried on business as a wholesale furrier in the Nevski in Petrograd, had a very pretty young wife.
Fur skins taken out of season are indifferent, and the hair is liable to shed itself freely; a good furrier will, however, reject such faulty specimens in the manufacturing.
The majority have two stripes of white hair, extending the whole length of the skin, but these are cut out by the manufacturing furrier and sold to the dealers in pieces for exportation.
The very small pups are of a beautiful quality, but too tiny to make into garments, and, as the aim of a good furrier is to avoid all lateral or cross seams, skins are selected that are the length of the garment that is to be made.
It is the duty of the wool-sorter to distinguish and separate the various qualities in each fleece, and of the furrier to do the same in the case of each fur.
Meanwhile, the sworn bookseller of the university, Master Andry Musnier, was inclining his ear to the furrier of the king's robes, Master Gilles Lecornu.
A shout of laughter from all the students greeted the unlucky name of the poor furrier of the king's robes.
I was distressed after that shop, but we continued on, stopping at a nice furrier who had well made coats but sold for more than we could afford.
Our last stop was a furrier called Toronto Furs where Mom had wanted to go all along because she knew they had decent prices and furs.
White furs especially that have become soiled and matted from use need cleaning frequently and are brought to the furrier or taxidermist for that purpose.
A furrier in New York writes: "I pay mostly by the piece.
As court furrier for the last forty years, he had witnessed all the revolutions of the reign of Francois I.
Ambroise was pledged to bring the royal ordinance that evening; and the old furrier went and came from the hall to the door in a state of impatience which showed how great his long-repressed ambition had been.
Your father, unfortunately for him a good Catholic, is furrier to the two queens.
The old furrier was pretending to some hesitation as to his son.
When the furrier caught sight of his visitor he shuddered violently; but the stranger managed, unseen by Tourillon, to lay his fingers on his lips.
Monseigneur, a man sent by the queen's furrieris at the gate, and says he has an ermine suit to convey to her.
The old furrier went at once to see him, and learned at last that Christophe was still living, though a prisoner.
Why should the son of a furrierget himself into that fray?
But the furrier had brought himself safely through all the chances and changes by which court merchants were often involved in the disgrace and overthrow of mistresses.
In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries the trade of the furrierwas one of the most flourishing industries.
Before belonging to the new religion, the son of a furrier ought to wait until the rest of the world belongs to it.
The season was lost, and the furrier sued him for breach of contract; and what was worse, Goodenough laughed at his misfortunes.
To his astonishment Yevsey saw the little stout furrier with hanging lower lip and eyes painfully screwed up.
The furrier laid him on the ground then he straightened himself and shouted: "Water, women, you rotten carrion!
Suddenly Nikolay thefurrier appeared, a short black curly-headed man with long arms.
At the same time François Castargis, furrier of Angers, is directed to supply ten dozen finest marten skins at a cost of £15 7s.
It was a peculiarity of the business of a furrier at that day, that, while it admitted of unlimited extension, it could be begun on the smallest scale, with a very insignificant capital.
Otherwise the furrier or sheepskin tailor was an extremely pious man.
Leoni would not let the furrier go, and managed to extract from him an account of the whole project.
One of the conspirators, a furrier from Pisa, had qualms of conscience; he wished to save his friend Niccolo Leoni, a member of the Council of Ten.
And the furrier decked the skin Handsomely, and mounted it All on scarlet.
The shoemaker made up his mind to take the sheepskin on credit, but the furrier would not give it to him.
If only the furrier does not cheat him, for my man is too simple for anything.
I see that Gert's vote regards his own advantage more than the welfare of the republic; for people do not need a furrier so much on the voyages to India as on voyages to the North.
But listen, my dear: since you have become a burgomaster, I beg of you that Gert the furrier may be punished for the wrong he did me to-day.
True, it was not Master Mocsik, the furrier of Gozon, who made it, but it was the most famous furrier in the city of Miskolcz who had been entrusted with its construction.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "furrier" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
