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- noun Plural form of
draper .
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Examples
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Then they separated, as Norah had no opinion whatever of Mrs. Brown's shopping – principally in drapers 'establishments, which this bush maiden hated cordially.
A Little Bush Maid 1910
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She reminds me of the assistant in Goravans the drapers, when I was growing up in Ireland.
FEAR OF LANDING Eamon Somers 2011
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In this week's opener, therefore, a strange case of multiple homicide at a bespoke tailors uncannily resembles one which took place at a linen drapers centuries earlier.
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The lady thus specially presented was a long lean figure, wearing such a faded air that she seemed not to have been made in what linen-drapers call "fast colours" originally, and to have, by little and little, washed out.
Canonical Writers 2008
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CONAN: And indeed that as dueling - as members of what used to be the middle class, the trades class ascended to the House of Lords by virtue of their great wealth, that indeed the landed aristocracy found it, well, ridiculous to see drapers and assistant drapers out on the dueling lists.
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Rooms in the same house could run the gamut from the “Louis” style so popular with Americans, to the Moorish and Oriental decor transported West by fashionable drapers like Liberty & Co.
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CONAN: And indeed that as dueling - as members of what used to be the middle class, the trades class ascended to the House of Lords by virtue of their great wealth, that indeed the landed aristocracy found it, well, ridiculous to see drapers and assistant drapers out on the dueling lists.
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That marriage came to an end, and Stenning's father died, and Stenning went with his mother to the north to live with her new husband, who kept a chain of drapers 'shops in places like Ilkley and Skipton.
Movie Night 2010
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CONAN: And indeed that as dueling - as members of what used to be the middle class, the trades class ascended to the House of Lords by virtue of their great wealth, that indeed the landed aristocracy found it, well, ridiculous to see drapers and assistant drapers out on the dueling lists.
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CONAN: And indeed that as dueling - as members of what used to be the middle class, the trades class ascended to the House of Lords by virtue of their great wealth, that indeed the landed aristocracy found it, well, ridiculous to see drapers and assistant drapers out on the dueling lists.
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