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drapery
English
Etymology
From Old French draperie, from drap (“drape, sheet, large cloth”), ultimately of Germanic origin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?d?e?p??i/
Noun
drapery (countable and uncountable, plural draperies)
- (uncountable) Cloth draped gracefully in folds.
- (countable) A piece of cloth, hung vertically as a curtain; a drape.
- The occupation of a draper; cloth-making, or dealing in cloth.
- He made also statutes for the maintenance of drapery and the keeping of wools within the realm
- Cloth, or woollen materials in general.
- 1859, Thomas Macaulay, The Life of William Pitt
- people who ought to be weighing out grocery or measuring out drapery
- 1859, Thomas Macaulay, The Life of William Pitt
Translations
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draper
English
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman draper, from Old French drapier, from drap + -ier
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?d?e?.p?(?)/
- Rhymes: -e?p?(r)
Noun
draper (plural drapers)
- One who sells cloths; a dealer in cloths.
Related terms
- drape
- drapery
Translations
Anagrams
- parred
French
Etymology
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, *dr?p- (“that which is fulled, drabcloth”) from Proto-Germanic *drap-, *dr?p- (“something beaten”), from *drepan? (“to beat, strike”), from Proto-Indo-European *dhrebh- (“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): /d?a.pe/
Verb
draper
- to drape
Conjugation
Related terms
- drapeau
References
Further reading
- “draper” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- perdra
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