subs. phr. (old).—1. See quot. 1892; and (2) see RAG, subs. 7.
1748. SMOLLETT, Roderick Random, xxvii. Mr. Morgan’s wife kept a gin-shop in RAG-FAIR.
1772. BRIDGES, A Burlesque Translation of Homer, 205. One kept a slop-shop in RAG-FAIR.
1892. W. C. SYDNEY, England and the English in Eighteenth Century, I. 32. Situated in the parish of St. Mary, Whitechapel, near the Tower of London, was the district called RAG FAIR, where old clothes and frippery were sold.
