shop that sells drapery' name='description'> draper's - definition and meaning

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  • noun A shop that sells drapery

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Examples

  • Go look at draper's house and see how silly the 1940s interior is, that's how silly this mid century modern style looks today.

    Real Estate Porn: MidCentury Modern Meet-Up in Medina « PubliCola 2010

  • Don Baker, a political officer in Baghdad and draper's former high school teacher and mentor, explained that her tour in Saudi Arabia was "a very difficult posting with a number of restrictions, especially for women."

    Helping advance the role of women in Turkey 2011

  • It's about a little Cockney draper's assistant, who takes a vacation on his bicycle, and falls in with a young girl very much above him.

    Chapter VI 2010

  • Burberry traces its roots to southern England, where Thomas Burberry, a draper's apprentice, opened a small shop in 1856.

    Mink or Fox? The Trench Gets Complicated Paul Sonne 2011

  • His father left school at 13 and worked in a tobacconist's in Chingford, and his mother at a draper's in Leyton.

    Derek Jacobi's King Lear: 'I've always felt slightly young for the role, but now I'm 72…' Carole Cadwalladr 2010

  • The draper's shop, the 'Tampereen Lankakauppa', selling Finlayson's fabrics, started to flourish, and Canth found more time to literary aspirations.

    Minna Canth Matterhorn 2009

  • The draper's shop, the 'Tampereen Lankakauppa', selling Finlayson's fabrics, started to flourish, and Canth found more time to literary aspirations.

    Archive 2009-08-01 Matterhorn 2009

  • It is an image of a fairly modest draper's shop with manequin dummies in the window and I knew it was a Jewish-owned business because the nazis had crudely painted a Star of David and a German slogan including the word JUDEN on the window.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • Instead they slid into a spot outside a draper's shop and abandoned the stolen vehicle that was now packed with 500 pounds of explosives.

    Casey Sherman: Justice Rises From the Rubble in Northern Ireland 2009

  • Arthur Kipps is another oppressed draper's apprentice who is released from wage-slavery -- in his case by an unexpected legacy -- but because of his deficiencies of character and education is unable to master the elaborate code of manners that regulated genteel society in Edwardian England.

    Five Best 2008

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