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DRAPER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does draper mean? 

DRAPER (noun)
  The noun DRAPER has 1 sense:

1. a dealer in fabrics and sewing materials (and sometimes in clothing and drygoods)play

  Familiarity information: DRAPER used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


DRAPER (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A dealer in fabrics and sewing materials (and sometimes in clothing and drygoods)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("draper" is a kind of...):

bargainer; dealer; monger; trader (someone who purchases and maintains an inventory of goods to be sold)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "draper"):

linendraper (a retail dealer in yard goods)


 Context examples 


He was a retired—what do you call it!—draper—cloth-merchant—and had made me his heir.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Ford's was the principal woollen-draper, linen-draper, and haberdasher's shop united; the shop first in size and fashion in the place.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

I am sure Miss Nash would—for Miss Nash thinks her own sister very well married, and it is only a linen-draper.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)



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