rag-trade

Updated: May 4, 2025

Three days afterwards, a poor captain, from a Boston vessel, was summoned for the very identical bank-note, which he was obliged to pay, though he had never set his foot into the Tremont Hotel. There is, in Galveston a new-invented trade, called "the rag-trade," which is very profitable.

Frederick Marryat - Travels and Adventures of Monsieur Violet

Three days afterwards, a poor captain, from a Boston vessel, was summoned for the very identical bank-note, which he was obliged to pay, though he had never set his foot into the Tremont Hotel. There is in Galveston a new-invented trade, called "the rag-trade," which is very profitable.

Frederick Marryat - The Travels and Adventures of Monsieur Violet in California, Sonora, and Western Texas