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drapier

drapier is the obsolete form of draper.

Meaning of draper

Noun

draper (plural drapers)

  1. One who sells cloths; a dealer in cloths; a textile merchant.
    • [S]uch was the aberration of mind attending converse with a successful draper.1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 26

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Forms of drapier

pluraldrapiers

Questions about drapier

What is drapier the obsolete form of?
Drapier is the obsolete form of draper.

Words near drapier in the dictionary

  1. drapet
  2. drapeth
  3. drapetomania
  4. drapets
  5. drapey
  6. drapier
  7. drapiers
  8. drapiest
  9. draping
  10. draping off
  11. drapings

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Adapted from Wiktionary: drapier (page history and authors); draper (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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