A person who buys and sells hides or animal skins, especially for leather production.
From 'fell' (animal skin/hide) combined with 'monger' (merchant/dealer). This occupational term dates to medieval times when the hide trade was a major business, with fellmongers being respected tradespeople.
Fellmongers were incredibly important in medieval and Renaissance economies—they processed the skins left over from butchering animals into usable leather for everything from shoes to armor, making it impossible to waste any part of an animal!
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