draper

noun

drap·er ˈdrā-pər

chiefly British

: a dealer in cloth and sometimes also in clothing and dry goods

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web An old draper's table serves as a second island. —

Krissa Rossbund, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 May 2022 The honor of directly observing the first sperm rests with Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, a 17th-century Dutch draper with a side interest in science—specifically, building microscopes and coming up with innovative manufacturing methods to make better lenses for said microscopes. —

Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 31 July 2020 Lisa drove slowly, between five and six miles per hour, as the combine’s forty-foot-wide draper head cut the wheat with sickles that looked like oversized shark teeth. —

Michael Holtz, The New Yorker, 22 July 2022 Bertie’s stint as assistant schoolmaster under a family friend suited him better but ended when the school closed; another round of trials as apprentice pharmacist, draper, and trainee teacher followed. —

Stephanie Burt, The New Republic, 29 Mar. 2022 That same greenery accented the mantelpieces and serving tables and ran the length of the old draper’s table at which the guests sat. —

New York Times, 20 Dec. 2021 At age 14, he was apprenticed in a draper’s shop, a soul-killing job the boy hated. —

Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2021 The poet’s third husband was Richard Prowse, of Exeter, a prominent draper who was also the city’s bailiff, sheriff, alderman, and mayor, as well as a Member of Parliament. —

Jamie Quatro, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2019 Here’s the draper Baudu: The place would soon be really ridiculous in its immensity; the customers would lose themselves in it. —

Benedict Evans, WIRED, 26 July 2019 See More

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