A dealer in cloth or clothing and dry goods.
[Middle English, weaver or seller of cloth, from Old French drapier, from drap, cloth. See drape.]
draper
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drap·er (drā'pər)  |
n. Chiefly British
A dealer in cloth or clothing and dry goods.
A dealer in cloth or clothing and dry goods.
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The noun has one meaning:
Meaning #1:
a dealer in fabrics and sewing materials (and sometimes in clothing and drygoods)
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For other uses, see Draper (disambiguation).
Draper is the now largely obsolete term for a wholesaler, or especially retailer of cloth, mainly for clothing, or one who works in a draper's shop. A draper may additionally operate as a cloth merchant or a haberdasher. The drapers were an important trade guild. A number of prominent people were at one time or another drapers:
- Norman Birkett
- Margaret Bondfield
- Anton van Leeuwenhoek
- John Lewis
- Anthony Munday
- H. G. Wells
- George Williams, founder of the YMCA
- Edward Whalley, regicide, cousin of Oliver Cromwell
In 1724 Jonathan Swift wrote, in the guise of a draper, Drapier's Letters, a series of satirical pamphlets.
See also
- Haberdasher
- Millinery
- Drapery
- Worshipful Company of Drapers
- Sukiennice, or Drapers' Hall, Renaissance landmark of Krakow, Poland
- Draper (surname)
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| Translations: Draper |
Dansk (Danish)
n. - manufakturhandler
Nederlands (Dutch)
stoffenhandelaar
Français (French)
n. - (GB) marchand de tissus
Deutsch (German)
n. - Textilkaufmann
Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - υφασματέμπορος
Português (Portuguese)
n. - antigo vendedor (m) tecidos
Русский (Russian)
галантерейщик
Español (Spanish)
n. - pañero, lencero
Svenska (Swedish)
n. - klädeshandlare
中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
布商, 服装商
中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 布商, 服裝商
한국어 (Korean)
n. - 포목상, (무대의) 현수막 담당자
العربيه (Arabic)
(الاسم) تاجر يبيع الأقمشه والملابس
עברית (Hebrew)
n. - סוחר בדים
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