draper
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8.4
- noun
- /ˈdreɪpər/
- Archaic
:
vendedor de telas
- In the small town, the draper was well-known for providing quality cloth and friendly service.
Examples
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The local draper sells a variety of beautiful fabrics for sewing and upholstery.
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My father is a draper.
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Draper at your service, sir.
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Here he assembled physicians and drapers.
Fiction book (1996) -
In 1891, at the age of 14, he went to work as a draper's apprentice in the shop of a distant relation in the comparatively large town of Carmarthen.
Academic text (1996) -
She visited the draper to find the perfect material for her dressmaking project.
Synonyms
2
6.1
A maker or seller of clothes
1
3.7
A person who runs a shop that sells goods or services
1
6.1
A person or shop that sells men's clothes, especially suits and formal clothes
A person or shop that sells linen and other cloth by the yard
Surface Forms
Etymology
Draper comes from the Old French word drap meaning 'cloth', with -er added for a person who sells it. You can see the same root in drape, which means how cloth hangs, so a draper is someone who sells cloth and fabrics.