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ˈlinen-ˌdraper
[f. linen n.]
a. A retail trader who deals in linens, calicos, and the like.
1549Nottingham Rec. IV. 6 Johannes Cleyter, lynen draper. 1600Chester Pl. Banes 86 Cappers and lynnen drapers, see that you fourth bringe In well-decked order that worthy storie of Balaam and his Asse. 1607? Dekker & Webster Westward Ho! i. i, Like politic penthouses, which commonly make the shop of a mercer or linen-draper as dark as a room in Bedlam. 1782Cowper Gilpin 21, I am a linnen-draper bold, As all the world doth know. 1858Lytton What will he do? ii. v, Mrs. Haughton was the daughter of a linen draper.
b. A newspaper. Rhyming slang.
1857‘Ducange Anglicus’ Vulgar Tongue 12 Linen-draper, paper. 1936J. Curtis Gilt Kid xxiv. 234 It might be just as well to keep under cover for a little until perhaps the linen-drapers gave him the office that the chase had not been taken up. 1972Lebende Sprachen XVII. 8/3 Linen draper, paper.
Hence ˈlinenˌdraperess, the wife of a linen-draper, a female linen-draper. ˈlinenˌdrapery, the occupation of a linen-draper; goods in which a linen-draper deals.
1868M. E. Braddon Dead Sea Fr. I. vi. 104 The linen⁓draperess seated herself in one of the holland-covered arm⁓chairs. 1849F. J. Foxton Pop. Chr. 16 The heterodox linen-drapery of the Tractarians. 1895P. White King's Diary 4 Colossal linendrapery ending in such a daughter is a glorified trade. |