1
: a fur dealer
2
a
: one that dresses furs
b
: one that makes, repairs, alters, or cleans fur garments
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Generic versions of these medications — especially the lowest-dose versions that many of our smaller, furrier friends are prescribed — typically retail between $10 and $15 a month.
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Sarah Owermohle, STAT, 5 Apr. 2024
His father, Damianos, a furrier, left for several years to work in New York.
—Randy Kennedy, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2024
The screenwriting duo combine the slapstick comedy of Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplain with the zany antics of Road Runner and Bugs Bunny cartoons in a 19th-century cracked fable about a cider entrepreneur turned furrier trying to outsmart a pack of much brighter beavers and rabbits.
—Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 21 Feb. 2024
For the wife of a furrier who had grown up in the outer boroughs and had an accent to match, Ms. Mason’s suggestion was to pretend to have a cold and stay mum and let her husband do the talking during the board interview.
—Penelope Green, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2024
Her father, Harry, was a telegraph operator during World War I and then a furrier who brought the family west in the mid-1930s.
—Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Dec. 2023
There’s an obvious mood to the photographs in Metropolitan Melancholia: An old Greek furrier sits behind window bars in his office near Penn Station, his face pensive.
—Curbed, 20 Oct. 2023
His parents were Jewish immigrants from Austria — his father was a furrier, his mother a homemaker — and his younger brother, Lawrence, followed him into academia, founding the American studies department at Brandeis University.
—Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2023
The organization, which is now a charity that works with schools and housing shelters, has its roots in the medieval trade guild of furriers and was incorporated by Royal Charter in 1327.
—Cara Lynn Shultz, Peoplemag, 4 May 2023
Sarah Owermohle, STAT, 5 Apr. 2024
His father, Damianos, a furrier, left for several years to work in New York.
—Randy Kennedy, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2024
The screenwriting duo combine the slapstick comedy of Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplain with the zany antics of Road Runner and Bugs Bunny cartoons in a 19th-century cracked fable about a cider entrepreneur turned furrier trying to outsmart a pack of much brighter beavers and rabbits.
—Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 21 Feb. 2024
For the wife of a furrier who had grown up in the outer boroughs and had an accent to match, Ms. Mason’s suggestion was to pretend to have a cold and stay mum and let her husband do the talking during the board interview.
—Penelope Green, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2024
Her father, Harry, was a telegraph operator during World War I and then a furrier who brought the family west in the mid-1930s.
—Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Dec. 2023
There’s an obvious mood to the photographs in Metropolitan Melancholia: An old Greek furrier sits behind window bars in his office near Penn Station, his face pensive.
—Curbed, 20 Oct. 2023
His parents were Jewish immigrants from Austria — his father was a furrier, his mother a homemaker — and his younger brother, Lawrence, followed him into academia, founding the American studies department at Brandeis University.
—Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2023
The organization, which is now a charity that works with schools and housing shelters, has its roots in the medieval trade guild of furriers and was incorporated by Royal Charter in 1327.
—Cara Lynn Shultz, Peoplemag, 4 May 2023
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furrier
noun
fur·ri·er
ˈfər-ē-ər 
: a person who deals in furs
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