Other forms: drapers
A draper is a trader who sells cloth. The village draper, a draper's shop, apprenticed to a draper.
The trade has all but gone with ready-made clothing, and the word survives in shop names and in surnames. A draper sold ordinary cloth and a mercer the fine silks, and the Drapers' Company is one of the great livery companies of London.
1noundraperA trader who sells cloth.
“She bought silk and velvet from the draper to make new curtains.”
draper is a trader.
Old French drapier comes from drap, cloth, from a Late Latin word for a piece of cloth.
Old French
drapier
Anglo-Norman
draper
Middle English
draper
English, today
draper
From Middle English draper, from Anglo-Norman draper, from Old French drapier, from drap + -ier.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA