draper
IPA: drˈeɪpɝ
noun
- One who sells cloths; a dealer in cloths; a textile merchant.
- (countable) An English surname originating as an occupation for a draper (cloth merchant).
- A locale in the United States:
- An unincorporated community in Harlan County, Kentucky.
- A town in Jones County, South Dakota; named for railroad official C. A. Draper.
- A small town in Denton County, Texas, renamed from Corral City in 2016.
- A city in Salt Lake County and Utah County, Utah; named for Mormon elder William Draper.
- A census-designated place in Pulaski County, Virginia.
- A town and unincorporated community therein, in Sawyer County, Wisconsin; named for Wisconsin librarian and historian Lyman Draper.
- A community in the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo, Alberta, Canada; named for businessman Thomas Draper.
- A residential locality in the City of Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia.
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Examples of "draper" in Sentences
- An alternative - in an old English-Latin dictionary - was "wool-draper", probably using "draper" in the sense of "fabric seller".
- Project Runway's most-esteemed "draper," Rami Kashou, was a guest speaker at the Phillips Collection last Thursday for their monthly "Phillips After 5″ event.
- Government service: After graduating from Washington University in St. Louis with degrees in Islamic Studies, draper joined the State Department and completed a year-long tour in Saudi Arabia as a consular officer.
- I don't doubt they are from what you tell me -- you could look about meanwhile for a temporary appointment, say as '-- he checked himself from uttering the word' shop girl, 'and substituted for it,' draper's assistant. '
- With this all-star season featuring returning favorites like season one's Austin Scarlett, and season four's draper extraordinaire Rami Kashou, it makes you yearn for a simpler time when reality TV didn't have to try quite so hard to be entertaining.
- There's Mog Edwards, the draper in love with Miss Myfanwy Price; Polly Garter, the town prostitute in love with babies; and the formidable Mrs. Ogmore-Pritchard, twice widowed, who keeps a boarding house but will not have any guests in it lest they breathe on the furniture.
- Mr Buck, a stiff, old-fashioned linen-draper, is waiting for notice in the adjoining pew; what I chiefly remember about him is, that in his best parlour there hung a large frame, containing what I never saw anywhere else, varieties in "darning," all sorts of fabrics being admirably imitated,
- He left the Court and returned to his cure, and as soon as he came there, he called the draper and the tailor, and he had a gown made which trailed three quarters of an ell on the ground; for he told the tailor how he had been reproved for wearing a short gown, and ordered to wear a long one.
- He was in Galveston ordering supplies for the ranch, when in passing a shop which he would have called a draper's, but which was there designated as dealing in dry goods, he was amazed to see the name "Danby and Strong" in big letters at the bottom of a huge pile of small cardboard boxes that filled the whole window.
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