draper

From Middle English draper, from Anglo-Norman draper, from Old French drapier, from drap + -ier.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɹeɪ.pə(ɹ)/

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• Rhymes: -eɪpə(ɹ)

draper (plural drapers)

1. One who sells cloths; a dealer in cloths; a textile merchant.
   • 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 26:

     [S]uch was the aberration of mind attending converse with a successful draper.

• ale-draper
• drape
• drapery

• parred

Inherited from Middle French, from Old French draper (“to drape", also, "to full cloth”), from drap (“cloth, drabcloth”), from Late Latin drappus, drapus (“drabcloth, kerchief”), a word first recorded in the Capitularies of Charlemagne, probably from Old Low Frankish *drap, *drāp- (“that which is fulled, drabcloth”)^[1] from Proto-Germanic *drap-, *drēp- (“something beaten”), from *drepaną (“to beat, strike”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreb- (“to beat, crush, make or become thick”).^[2] Cognate with English drub (“to beat”), Low German drapen, dräpen (“to strike”). More at drape.

• IPA^(key): /dʁa.pe/

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draper

1. to drape

• drapeau

• “draper”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• perdra