drapern.
/ˈdreɪpə/, U.S. /ˈdreɪpər/ 1. Originally: a person who made (woollen) cloth. Subsequently: a dealer in cloth, and now by extension, in other articles of textile manufacture: often qualified as woollen draper, linen draper.
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society > trade and finance > trader > traders or dealers in specific articles > [noun] > in textiles, clothing, or yarns
mercerc1230
clothier1362
draper1362
woolman1390
yarn-chopper1429
line-draper1436
Welsh drapera1525
telerc1540
purple-seller1547
linen-draper1549
staplera1552
silkman1553
woollen-draper1554
wool-driver1555
woolster1577
linener1616
woolner1619
linen-man1631
ragman1649
rag merchant1665
slop-seller1665
bodice-seller1672
piece-broker1697
wool-stapler1709
cloth-man1723
Manchester-man1755
fleece-merchanta1774
rag dealer1777
man's mercer1789
keelman1821
man-mercer1837
cotton-broker1849
slopper1854
shoddyite1865
costumier1886
cotton-man1906
the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [noun] > one who makes cloth
draper1362
telerc1540
1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. v. 123 Þenne I drouȝ me a-mong þis drapers my Donet to leorne.
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. v. 255 Bothe mercere & drapere.
c1420 Sir Amadas (Weber) 144 Ther myght..no draper is clothe drawe.
1483 Cath. Angl. 106/2 A Draper, pannarius, trapezata.
1513 Will of Robert Fabyan in R. Fabyan New Chrons. Eng. & France (1811) Pref. p. iii I Robert Fabyan, citizein and draper of London.
1572 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 342 The mercers and wollen drapers shalbe incorporated to one incorporation.
1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. vi. 275 Thus the Draper may sooner sell forty ells of freeze and course cloath, than the Mercer four yards of cloath of gold.
1807 G. Crabbe Parish Reg. i, in Poems 50 If at the Draper's window, Susan cast A longing look.
2. In combination = -seller: see ale draper n.
Derivatives
ˈdraperess n. a female draper.
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society > trade and finance > trader > traders or dealers in specific articles > [noun] > in textiles, clothing, or yarns > woman
purpuressc1384
purpurarec1425
silk-womanc1440
paste-wife1550
rag woman1653
merceress1840
draperess1854
linendraperess1868
1854 Chambers's Jrnl. 1 226 Almost every man above the rank of a mere daily cultivator has a wife who is groceress, linen-draperess, butcheress, or confectioner.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
† draperv.
Obsolete. rare.
1. transitive. To weave, make into cloth.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [verb (transitive)] > weave
biwevec1300
drape1436
draper1436
weave1538
indrape1622
woof1894
1436 Libel Eng. Pol. in Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 168 They Cowde never drapere [v.r. drape, draper] here wolle.
1436 Libel of Eng. Pol. in Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 162 Spayneshe wolle in Fflaundres draped [v.r. draperd] is.
2. intransitive or absol. To arrange drapery, to drape.
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1717 G. Berkeley Jrnls. Trav. Italy 16 Jan. in Wks. (1955) VII. 254 His [Perugino's] drapering every one knows to [be] of a little gout.
Derivatives
ˈdrapering n. also attributive as drapering-house, one where cloth is manufactured or sold.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [noun]
cloth-makingc1405
endrapering1461
draping1483
drapery1488
clothing1548
cloth-working1551
draperinga1552
machine-knitting1886
1436 Libel of Eng. Pol. in Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 162 By drapinge [v.r. drapryng] of oure wolle in substaunce Lyvene here comons.]
a1552 J. Leland Itinerary (1711) IV. 60 This House is made by one Bell a Drapering House.
1717 [see sense 2]. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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