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 (UK) (file) - Rhymes: -eɪpə(ɹ)
Noun
draper (plural drapers)
- One who sells cloths; a dealer in cloths; a textile merchant.
- 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney: Ure Smith, published 1965, page 26:
- [S]uch was the aberration of mind attending converse with a successful draper.
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Derived terms
- Draperstown (not from the surname)
Related terms
- ale-draper
- drape
- drapery
Translations
one who sells cloths
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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, *drāp- (“that which is fulled, drabcloth”)[1] from Proto-Germanic *drap-, *drēp- (“something beaten”), from *drepaną (“to beat, strike”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreb- (“to beat, crush, make or become thick”)[2]. Cognate with English drub (“to beat”), Low German drapen, dräpen (“to strike”). More at drape.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dʁa.pe/
Audio (file)
Verb
draper
- 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 | – | – | – | ||||
| 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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Related terms
- drapeau
References
- http://onlinedictionary.datasegment.com/word/drabcloth
- Skeat, An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language, "Drab."
Further reading
- “draper”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- perdra