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draper (dict)
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DraperThe term 'draper' can refer to a number of individuals and places. Please see the article Draper (disambiguation) for other uses of the term.
Draper is the now largely obsolete term for a merchant in cloth or dry goods. The drapers were an important trade guild. A number of people of prominent people were at one time or another drapers: In 1724 Jonathan Swift wrote, in the guise of a draper, The Drapier's Letters, a series of satirical essays. See also: Worshipful Company of Drapers
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