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单词 ale-draper
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ale-draper

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Noun

ale-draper (plural ale-drapers)

  1. (obsolete) An alehouse keeper or publican
    • 1911, Kathleen Schlesinger, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 3 : Barrel-organ
      Mr Thomas Brown relates that one Mr Stephens, a Poultry author, proposed to parliament for any one that should presume to keep an organ in a Publick House to be fined £20 and made incapable of being an ale-draper for the future.

References

[Francis] Grose [et al.] (1811), Ale-draper”, in Lexicon Balatronicum. A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket Eloquence. [], London: Printed for C. Chappell, [], OCLC 23927885.

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