| Title: | Rag seller |
| Original Title: | Drillier |
| Volume and Page: | Vol. 5 (1755), p. 112 |
| Author: | Unknown |
| Translator: | Abigail Wendler Bainbridge [West Dean College] |
| Subject terms: |
Papermaking
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| Citation (MLA): | "Rag seller." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Abigail Wendler Bainbridge. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2013. Web. [fill in today's date in the form 18 Apr. 2009 and remove square brackets]. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0002.765>. Trans. of "Drillier," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 5. Paris, 1755. |
| Citation (Chicago): | "Rag seller." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Abigail Wendler Bainbridge. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0002.765 (accessed [fill in today's date in the form April 18, 2009 and remove square brackets]). Originally published as "Drillier," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 5:112 (Paris, 1755). |
Rag-seller. One who gathers drilles or old rags, and who trades in them. More often one calls him a chiffonnier. See Rag-seller [Chiffonnier]. [1]
Note
1. In English there is only one word but in French there seem to be more for rags and rag-sellers, chiffonnier being the most common, from chiffes and chiffons (rags); according to the Dictionnaire de la langue française (Émile Littré, 1872–1877, available at http://francois.gannaz.free.fr/Littre/accueil.php), drilles referred specifically to those rags used for papermaking.