| 单词 | linen draper |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslinen draper 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. ΘΚΠ 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. < as lemmas |
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