draper
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thumb|''In the Draper's Shop'' by Adriaen van Bloemen Draper was originally a term for a retailer or wholesaler of cloth that was mainly for clothing. A draper may additionally operate as a cloth merchant or a haberdasher.
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thumb|''In the Draper's Shop'' by Adriaen van Bloemen Draper was originally a term for a retailer or wholesaler of cloth that was mainly for clothing. A draper may additionally operate as a cloth merchant or a haberdasher.
==History== Drapers were an important trade guild during the medieval period, when the sellers of cloth operated out of drapers' shops. However the original meaning of the term has now largely fallen out of use.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “draper” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.