draper

See also: Draper, drapër, dräper, and dråper

English

Etymology

From Middle English draper, from Anglo-Norman draper, from Old French drapier, from drap + -ier.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɹeɪ.pə(ɹ)/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -eɪpə(ɹ)

Noun

draper (plural drapers)

1. One who sells cloths; a dealer in cloths; a textile merchant.
   • 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1965, →OCLC, page 26:

     [S]uch was the aberration of mind attending converse with a successful draper.

Derived terms

• Draperstown (not from the surname)
• linendraper

Related terms

• ale-draper
• drape
• drapery

Translations

one who sells cloths

• Arabic: بَزَّاز m (bazzāz)
• Armenian: բազազ (hy) (bazaz), կերպասավաճառ (kerpasavačaṙ)
• Finnish: kangaskauppias
• Greek: υφασματοπώλης m (yfasmatopólis)
• Irish: éadaitheoir m
• Romanian: pânzar (ro) m, postăvar (ro) m

Anagrams

• parred

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French, from Old French draper (“to drape", also, "to full cloth”), from drap (“cloth, drabcloth”), from Late Latin drappus, drapus (“drabcloth, kerchief”), a word first recorded in the Capitularies of Charlemagne, probably from Old Low Frankish *drap, *drāp- (“that which is fulled, drabcloth”) from Proto-Germanic *drap-, *drēp- (“something beaten”), from *drepaną (“to beat, strike”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreb- (“to beat, crush, make or become thick”). Cognate with English drub (“to beat”), Low German drapen, dräpen (“to strike”). More at drape.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dʁa.pe/

• Audio

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Verb

draper

1. to drape

Conjugation

Conjugation of draper (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	draper
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	drapant /dʁa.pɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		drapé /dʁa.pe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	drape /dʁap/	drapes /dʁap/	drape /dʁap/	drapons /dʁa.pɔ̃/	drapez /dʁa.pe/	drapent /dʁap/
	imperfect	drapais /dʁa.pɛ/	drapais /dʁa.pɛ/	drapait /dʁa.pɛ/	drapions /dʁa.pjɔ̃/	drapiez /dʁa.pje/	drapaient /dʁa.pɛ/
	past historic2	drapai /dʁa.pe/	drapas /dʁa.pa/	drapa /dʁa.pa/	drapâmes /dʁa.pam/	drapâtes /dʁa.pat/	drapèrent /dʁa.pɛʁ/
	future	draperai /dʁa.pʁe/	draperas /dʁa.pʁa/	drapera /dʁa.pʁa/	draperons /dʁa.pʁɔ̃/	draperez /dʁa.pʁe/	draperont /dʁa.pʁɔ̃/
	conditional	draperais /dʁa.pʁɛ/	draperais /dʁa.pʁɛ/	draperait /dʁa.pʁɛ/	draperions /dʁa.pə.ʁjɔ̃/	draperiez /dʁa.pə.ʁje/	draperaient /dʁa.pʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	drape /dʁap/	drapes /dʁap/	drape /dʁap/	drapions /dʁa.pjɔ̃/	drapiez /dʁa.pje/	drapent /dʁap/
	imperfect2	drapasse /dʁa.pas/	drapasses /dʁa.pas/	drapât /dʁa.pa/	drapassions /dʁa.pa.sjɔ̃/	drapassiez /dʁa.pa.sje/	drapassent /dʁa.pas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	drape /dʁap/	—	drapons /dʁa.pɔ̃/	drapez /dʁa.pe/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Related terms

• drapeau

Further reading

• “draper”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• perdra