(n.) One who sells cloths; a dealer in cloths; as, a draper and tailor.
Example Sentences:
(1) The study was conducted to evaluate the effect of ageing on textiles (17.5 months), air temperature (25-45 degrees C) and relative air humidity (RH) (45-85%) on the CH2O release rate from 6 kinds of drapers and furniture coverings.
(2) Compare her with Megan Draper, who is in a minidress too, but one that is several inches shorter and boasts the swirling lava-lamp prints that may have been seen in Vogue at the time.
(3) As Tories demanded a personal apology from the prime minister, the former home secretary Charles Clarke said the position of Draper should be "looked at" along with that of Charlie Whelan, once a key Brown adviser, who was copied in on the email exchange.
(4) The scene demands that the actor learn and present the skills of a draper - and the physical objects and social situation of the scene are as important as the breakdown that Hatch experiences.
(5) Playing a character like Don Draper tends to colour people's interpretations of you …" His character in Bridesmaids , however, is not entirely dissimilar to that of rakish Draper.
(6) Sorrell warns ad industry against 'Don Draper-ish' optimism as Brexit vote looms Read more The company confirmed this week it would announce that from 2011 to 2015 WPP had outperformed its peers and the FTSE 100.
(7) Not fictional archetypes such as Don Draper or Jack Bauer , and certainly not from Robin Thicke .
(8) When the education secretary, Michael Gove, announced his free schools policy, Draper, who was appointed MBE for services to children in 2006, saw an opportunity.
(9) You're like Tarzan, swinging from vine to vine" – Pete Campbell Sterling Cutler Cooper Gleason Draper Holloway Chaough Campbell.
(10) While smiling may not be a characteristic of Draper, the role he has played in the extraordinarily successful US TV series Mad Men for four years, Hamm, hangovers aside, is very much a different man.
(11) Responding to widespread concerns that the Lawn Tennis Association has missed the boat with Murray, Michael Downey, who succeeded Roger Draper as the LTA’s chief executive six months ago, admitted on Friday it had yet to agree with the player the best way to use his success over the past two years as an engine for promoting the game.
(12) There’s one problem however,” he said, “and that’s waiting till the next episode.” John Slattery as Roger Sterling and Jon Hamm as Don Draper in the final season of Mad Men.
(13) The four anti-gp53 monoclonal antibodies were neutralizing for the homologous Danish cytopathic isolate and cross-reacted with all BVDV strains examined except for the Draper strain.
(14) These results extend our previous observations of bulges at a single position in an RNA hairpin [White, S. A., & Draper, D.E.
(15) Small wonder that there are Facebook groups dedicated to asking 'What would Don Draper do?'
(16) "They have some lawsuits in the works, and they're pretty passionate people," said Paul Seamans, of Draper, South Dakota, who farms and ranches on land the pipeline would cross.
(17) White, and D. E. Draper, Biochemistry 24, 5062 (1985)].
(18) The following year, he was caught up in a row about smears when emails from McBride to another Labour spin doctor, Derek Draper, proposed regurgitating rumours about senior Tories’ private lives.
(19) The problem for Draper and McBride is that it is engulfing the man they were trying to support.
(20) Draper hopes Murray's success will also inspire those rising the rankings behind him, including Oliver Golding, who won the US Open juniors last year and Liam Broady, who lost in the boy's final this time around.
Drapery
Definition:
(n.) The occupation of a draper; cloth-making, or dealing in cloth.
(n.) Cloth, or woolen stuffs in general.
(n.) A textile fabric used for decorative purposes, especially when hung loosely and in folds carefully disturbed; as: (a) Garments or vestments of this character worn upon the body, or shown in the representations of the human figure in art. (b) Hangings of a room or hall, or about a bed.
Example Sentences:
(1) Consumer products such as cosmetics, cigarettes, textiles, furniture, draperies, and preservatives release formaldehyde.
(2) The department store began as a small drapery store in Glasgow.
(3) If Edward I's pendulous swags – the replica drapery that forms part of the lavishly recreated Plantagenet bedchamber currently on display in the Tower Of London – were any more pendulous, their combined weight would probably bring down the ceiling, Beefeaters and all.
(4) They are in stately homes of the mind - under lofty pillars, among fine draperies, with a view over rolling parkland.
(5) methods revealed the nmj on the extensor digitorum muscle to be covered by a delicate drapery of postjunctional folds that surround the immature endplate region.
(6) The retailer, which traces its roots back to a small Glasgow drapery shop opened by Hugh Fraser and James Arthur in 1849, had been pushing ahead with flotation plans after sale talks with France's Galeries Lafayette and Sports Direct founder Mike Ashley collapsed in January.