[f. FUR sb. + -IER; cf. clothier. Fr. has fourreur, agent-n. f. fourrer FUR v.] A dealer in or dresser of fur or furs.
[c. 1330: see FURROUR.]
1575. Turberv., Faulconrie, 12. As well the browne Eagles as the blacke, are skynned and vncased, as the Vultures be, and their skynnes sent to the furryers and pellytours of Fraunce.
1598. Hakluyt, Voy., I. 156. Certaine Furriers of London … haue had a great part of the sayd goods, namely of the Furres.
1774. Goldsm., Nat. Hist. (1776), III. 323. Of this [skin] the furriers make a covering that is warm and durable.
1836. W. Irving, Astoria, I. ii. 28. Mr. Astor became acquainted with a countryman of his, a furrier by trade.
1859. Darwin, Orig. Spec., v. (1873), 107. It is well known to furriers that animals of the same species have thicker and better fur the further north they live.
