draper

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See also: Draper, drapër, dräper, and dråper

English

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Etymology

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From Middle English draper, from Anglo-Norman draper, from Old French drapier, from drap + -ier.

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Noun

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draper (plural drapers)

  1. One who sells cloths; a dealer in cloths; a textile merchant.
    • 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1965, →OCLC, page 26:
      [S]uch was the aberration of mind attending converse with a successful draper.

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French

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Etymology

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Inherited from Middle French, from Old French draper (to drape", also, "to full cloth), from drap (cloth, drabcloth), from Late Latin drappus, drapus (drabcloth, kerchief), a word first recorded in the Capitularies of Charlemagne, probably from Old Low Frankish *drap, *drāp- (that which is fulled, drabcloth)[1] from Proto-Germanic *drap-, *drēp- (something beaten), from *drepaną (to beat, strike), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreb- (to beat, crush, make or become thick).[2] Cognate with English drub (to beat), Low German drapen, dräpen (to strike). More at drape.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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draper

  1. to drape

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References

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  1. ^ http://onlinedictionary.datasegment.com/word/drabcloth
  2. ^ Skeat, An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language, "Drab."

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