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Definitions of ragpicker in various dictionaries:
noun - an unskilled person who picks up rags from trash cans and public dumps as a means of livelihood
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One who makes a living scavenging rags and other refuse. |
an unskilled person who picks up rags from trash cans and public dumps as a means of livelihood |
A person who collects and sells rags. |
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A Rag-picker, or Chiffonnier, is term for someone who makes a living by rummaging through refuse in the streets to collect material for salvage. Scraps of cloth and paper could be turned into cardboard, broken glass could be melted down and reused, and even dead cats and dogs could be skinned to make clothes. * The rag-pickers in 19th and early 20th Century did not recycle the materials themselves; they would simply collect whatever they could find and turn it over to a "master rag-picker" (usually a former rag-picker) who would, in turn, sell itgenerally by weightto wealthy investors with the means to convert the materials into something more profitable. * Although it was solely a job for the lowest of the working classes, rag-picking was considered an honest occupation, more on the level of street sweeper than of a beggar. In Paris, for instance, rag-pickers were regulated by law: their operations were restricted to certain times of night, and they were required to return any unusually v |