draper

• Three assistants she had already—draper, a cutter and a second seamstress—and looked to add more in short order. —  Jacqueline Carey - Kushiel 02 - Kushiel's Chosen
• I was away at Dingle for the day, so my wife went into the establishment of the leading linen-draper, and sending for the head of the firm, asked him to speak to the man, who was then pretending to buy some tape. —  The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent
• Colonel EDWARD WHALLEY (rumoured by the Royalists to have been “a woollen-draper or petty merchant in London,” who had got into debt and migrated to Scotland for a time; but certainly of a Nottinghamshire family of mark, and certainly a cousin of Cromwell's; recently also known for excellent service under Cromwell as Major in Cromwell's own regiment); Major BETHELL; and four Captains. —  The Life of John Milton Vol. 3 1643-1649
• Now a draught-board used to be called (as I remember) by old Scotch people a “dam[61] brod[62].” Accordingly, Mrs. Chisholm entered the shop of a linen-draper, and asked to be shown table-linen a dam-brod pattern . —  Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character
• He was the son of a draper, and his birth and name of Bourjot had from his earliest childhood exasperated him against the nobility, grand houses, and the Bourbons. —  Renée Mauperin

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