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Draper is the now largely obsolete term for a merchant in cloth or dry goods, though often used specifically for one who owns or works in a '''draper's shop''' or '''store'''. A draper may additionally operate as a Cloth Merchant or a Haberdasher . The drapers were an important Trade Guild .

A number of prominent people were at one time or another drapers:


In 1724 Jonathan Swift wrote, in the guise of a draper, ''The Drapier's Letters'', a series of satirical essays.


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