Definition of draper
chiefly British
: a dealer in cloth and sometimes also in clothing and dry goods
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K St., 1420-Robert Draper to Emerson Siegle and Ariel Xue, $772,500.
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Teacher’s pet in the best possible way: the perfect draper, perfect sketcher, won all the awards.
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Drapers -Oscar de la Renta's son Moises is starting an online store-slash-magazine.
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Draper became CEO of Virgin Mobile during a shake up of Sprint’s prepaid wireless operations a year ago and more recently returned as president of prepaid.
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Draper police were not aware of Rackley's call to police in neighboring Sandy.
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Draper police were not aware of Rackley’s call to police in neighboring Sandy.
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Dior himself was a dreamer, not a draper, preferring to sketch rather than manipulate fabric directly (his rival, Cristobal Balenciaga, always included a black dress made by his own hands in each collection).
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Origin and Etymology of draper
Middle English, weaver, clothier, from Anglo-French draper, from drap cloth — more at drab
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