draper
draper
Definition
draper (drā′pər)
noun
- Obsolete a maker of cloth
- Brit. a dealer in cloth and dry goods
Etymology: ME < OFr drapier: see drape
Draper
Definition
Dra·per (drā′pər)
Draper, Henry 1837-82; U.S. astronomer
Draper, John William 1811-82; U.S. historian & scientist, born in England: father of Henry
draper
Usage Examples
Possessives
- assistant: Edward worked as a draper's assistant until he enlisted into the army in the early summer of 1915.
- shop: Every time she goes past the draper's shop in London Street, Edith stops in front of the window.
- apprentice: He worked as a draper's apprentice, bookkeeper, tutor, and journalist until 1895, when he became a full-time writer.
- store: Instead, Mr Perkins the lodger gets Louis a position as a salesman in a draper's store.
- business: He owned a draper's business at 20 Queen Square, Wolverhampton, which had possibly been his father's firm.
Converse of object
- travel: A short time afterward a traveling draper knocked at the door.
- open: McGregor had moved to Birmingham to seek his fortune and opened a linen draper 's shop near Villa Park.
- run: The shop on the right was a drapers run by Harry Castle.
- become: George Hudson who was born in 1800 and who became a draper in York.
- own: He owned a draper 's business at 20 Queen Square, Wolverhampton, which had possibly been his father's firm.
Adjective modifier
- woolen: In 1608 the youngest son of wealthy woolen draper left Manchester to study at Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
- local: Morris was the only surviving son of a local draper.
- wealthy: In 1608 the youngest son of wealthy woolen draper left Manchester to study at Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
- woolen: A woolen draper by trade, he had been involved with Whitefield's ministry in London since at least the 1760s.
- fancy: She eventually left, to join Edith in running a small fancy drapers and general store in the front room of their house.
- Dutch: Living cells were first seen in 1674 by Antony van Leeuwenhoek, a Dutch draper.
Modifies a noun
- shop: Six years later he went to work in a drapers shop in Whitechapel owned by another Quaker.
Noun used with modifier
- linen: He was the son of a linen draper of the town of Bristol, where he was born in 1744.
- apprentice: He was an apprentice draper, teacher and biology student before he became a professional journalist and writer.
- credit: There were three credit drapers, no less than three professors of music, and a pianoforte dealer.
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