drapernoun [ C ]
uk/ˈdreɪ.pər/us/ˈdreɪ.pɚ/UK old-fashionedsomeone who, in the past, owned a shop selling cloth, curtains, etc.
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People who sell things
- agent
- assistant
- auctioneer
- barker
- barrow boy
- cashier
- franchisee
- hawker
- ironmonger
- label
- marketeer
- sales force
- sales rep
- salesclerk
- salesman
- salesperson
- tradesman
- tradespeople
- vendor
- wholesaler
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Examples from literature
- A draper, or grocer—any man accustomed to tying parcels securely, in fact—will fashion that knot nine times out of ten.
- Half- choking with wrath and astonishment, he stood over his trembling wife with the first draper's bill he had ever received.
- I would as soon go and bargain with a linen draper about a fathom of calico as go and enquire the price of vegetables while standing between two fat old market women.
- In the shop of a draper a thought struck him.
- The narrator was then an apprentice in a draper's shop.