(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.
Mercer
Definition:
(n.) Originally, a dealer in any kind of goods or wares; now restricted to a dealer in textile fabrics, as silks or woolens.
Example Sentences:
(1) The litigation revealed that Mr Mercer, who had a history of infiltrating peace groups such as CND, had disguised his dealings with BAE from his home in Loughborough.
(2) (Mercer claims CAAT's confidential documents were sent to him anonymously in a brown paper envelope.
(3) He’s not the first Tory MP to speak out about the problem of housing yourself while rich: Johnny Mercer told the Telegraph that he was so incensed by the cost of London property that he brought his family boat up from the south coast, moored it in east London, and stays there several nights a week.
(4) A spokeswoman for the standards commissioner, Kathryn Hudson, said she had not yet received Mercer's self-referral and would consider the case for an investigation once she had had the chance to consider it.
(5) Other accounts report that Nesnick specified that Mercer was born in England.
(6) Cameron also knows that the Commons standards committee met yesterday to decide how severely to admonish a Tory former shadow minister, Patrick Mercer, for breaking parliamentary rules, raising the spectre of more sleaze to come.
(7) Jordy Mercer's job here for Pittsburgh is just not to make an out.
(8) Mercer was caught in a sting by journalist Daniel Foggo, leading to reports by BBC Panorama and the Daily Telegraph.
(9) Mercerization of linen threads for surgical use does not improve their properties.
(10) Amazon already has imprints for cult fiction (47North), thrillers (Thomas & Mercer), romance (Montlake Romance), children's books (Amazon Children's Publishing), foreign literature (AmazonCrossing), as well as its main imprint AmazonEncore, which launched in 2009.
(11) Information presented is based on more than seven years of experience gained by the Cardio-Pulmonary Research Institute through programs in Seattle, Mercer Island, and Yakima, WA, and in Portland, OR.
(12) After the police officers were killed last year, Patrick Mercer, an MP and ex-army officer, said: "These grenades are readily available on the black market and easy to conceal on your person and use.
(13) The 70-year-old politician was cheered by members of the public as he launched Ukip's campaign in the Nottinghamshire seat, which was vacated when former Tory Patrick Mercer resigned due to a lobbying scandal.
(14) While the Koch brothers remain coy about their candidate preferences, a number of billionaire donors in the Koch network, including hedge fund chieftains Paul Singer and Robert Mercer, have either made large donations to Super Pacs supporting candidates, or are expected to do so.
(15) (University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia), and F. V. Mercer.
(16) According to the 2014 Mercer Global Financial list of the world’s cleanest cities , Calgary, Canada’s oil capital was top of the cleanliness pile, followed by Adelaide, Honolulu, Minneapolis and Kobe.
(17) The latest row came after Farage shied away from standing in the Newark byelection which is expected to be held in June after the resignation of the former Conservative frontbencher Patrick Mercer.
(18) This plays well with the Tory party, though to judge from the leaked remarks of a member of the party's anti-European right like Patrick Mercer – who is reported to regard Mr Cameron as "a most despicable creature without any real redeeming features" – the prime minister is simply feeding a dog which will always bite him.
(19) Asked if he had over-reacted by demanding Mr Mercer's resignation - his first sacking as party leader - Mr Cameron broke off from an engagement in Birmingham to say: "I think the right thing is for Patrick to return to the backbenches."
(20) During this time, Mercer served in a number of countries, including Northern Ireland, where he completed nine tours.