Word Meanings - DRAPER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who sells cloths; a dealer in cloths; as, a draper and tailor.

Related words: (words related to DRAPER)

• DRAPERY
  1. The occupation of a draper; cloth-making, or dealing in cloth. Bacon. 2. Cloth, or woolen stuffs in general. People who ought to be weighing out grocery or measuring out drapery. Macaulay. 3. A textile fabric used for decorative purposes,
• TAILORING
  The business or the work of a tailor or a tailoress.
• TAILOR
  The goldfish. Salt-water tailor , the bluefish. Bartlett. -- Tailor bird , any one of numerous species of small Asiatic and East Indian singing birds belonging to Orthotomus, Prinia, and allied genera. They are noted for the skill with which
• TAILORESS
  A female tailor.
• DRAPER
  One who sells cloths; a dealer in cloths; as, a draper and tailor.
• TAILOR-MADE
  Made by a tailor or according to a tailor's fashion; -- said specif. of women's garments made with certain closeness of fit, simplicity of ornament, etc.
• DRAPERIED
  Covered or supplied with drapery. Byron.
• DEALER
  1. One who deals; one who has to do, or has concern, with others; esp., a trader, a trafficker, a shopkeeper, a broker, or a merchant; as, a dealer in dry goods; a dealer in stocks; a retail dealer. 2. One who distributes cards to the players.
• DOUBLE DEALER
  One who practices double dealing; a deceitful, trickish person. L'Estrange.