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draper

6 ENTRIES FOUND:
  1. draper (noun)
  2. Draper (biographical name)
  3. Draper (geographical name)
  4. draper's cap (noun)
  5. draper's teasel (noun)
  6. Grotthuss-Draper law (noun)

drap·er

noun \ˈdrā-pər\

Definition of DRAPER

chiefly British
: a dealer in cloth and sometimes also in clothing and dry goods
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Origin of DRAPER

Middle English, weaver, clothier, from Anglo-French draper, from drap cloth — more at drab
First Known Use: 14th century

Rhymes with DRAPER

aper, caper, japer, paper, raper, scraper, shaper, taper, vapor

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