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Definition of Drapers
1. draper [n] - See also: draper
Lexicographical Neighbors of Drapers
Literary usage of Drapers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A survey of London by John Stow (1842)
"The company of the drapers in London bought this house, and now the same is ...
141. t The company of drapers, to whom Edward III. granted a charter that ..."
2. Beverley Town Documents by Arthur Francis Leach (1900)
"ORDINANCES OF THE drapers. 1572. ... the drapers of this towne of Beverley haith
hadd and used certaine ... drapers, have granted to the saide ..."
3. The Publications of the Selden Society by Selden Society (1900)
"... concluded and agreed, the daie and yere abovesaid, that the said drapers, nor
any of them, shall frome the feaste of the ..."
4. Londiniana: Or, Reminiscences of the British Metropolis: Including by Edward Wedlake Brayley (1829)
"Cromwell's house, which he had thus constructed for a City residence, was
subsequently purchased by the drapers, and made their " Common Hall ;" till about ..."
5. Some Account of London by Thomas Pennant (1813)
"In Throgmorton-street, near its Ll" junction with Broad-street, stands drapers-Hall.
Thomas Cromwel, earl of Esse.r, built a magnifi- . cent house on its ..."
6. Gentleman's Magazine Library edited by George Laurence Gomme, Frank Alexander Milne, Lady A C Bickley, Mrs Alice Bertha Merck Gomme (1904)
"585-] drapers' HALL. There are only two other pieces of this artist's that I know
of in any public building, which are two portraits in drapers' Hall, ..."
7. Wages and Regularity of Employment in the Dress and Waist Industry of New by Nahum Isaac Stone (1915)
"drapers. Draping is one of the most skilled occupations in the trade in ...
Most of the drapers graduate into that class of work after having worked as ..."
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