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Definition of draper noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

draper

noun
 
/ˈdreɪpə(r)/
 
/ˈdreɪpər/
(British English, old-fashioned)
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  1. a person who owns or manages a shop that sells cloth, curtains, etc.
  2. draper’s
    (plural drapers)
    a shop that sells cloth, curtains, etc.Topics Shoppingc2
    3. Word Originlate Middle English (denoting a maker of woollen cloth): from Old French drapier, from drap ‘cloth’, from late Latin drappus.
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