Draper
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For other uses, see Draper (disambiguation).
Draper is the now largely obsolete term for a merchant in cloth or dry goods, though often used specifically for one who owns or works in a draper's shop or store. A draper may additionally operate as a cloth merchant or a haberdasher. The drapers were an important trade guild. A number of prominent people were at one time or another drapers:
- Margaret Bondfield
- Anton van Leeuwenhoek
- John Lewis
- Anthony Munday
- H. G. Wells
- George Williams, founder of the YMCA
- Edward Whalley, regicide, cousin of Oliver Cromwell
In 1724 Jonathan Swift wrote, in the guise of a draper, Drapier's Letters, a series of satirical pamphlets.
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