| 词汇 | draper |
| 释义 | draper noun[ C ] UKold-fashioneduk /ˈdreɪ.pər/ us /ˈdreɪ.pɚ/ someone who, in the past, owned a shop selling cloth, curtains, etc.（旧时的）布店老板 People who sell things agent assistant auctioneer barker barrow boy flower girl franchisee gallerist haberdasher hawker reseller retailer sales assistant sales force sales rep superseller supplier tout tradesman tradespeople A draper, or grocer—any man accustomed to tying parcels securely, in fact—will fashion that knot nine times out of ten. Half- choking with wrath and astonishment, he stood over his trembling wife with the first draper's bill he had ever received. I would as soon go and bargain with a linen draper about a fathom of calico as go and enquire the price of vegetables while standing between two fat old market women. In the shop of a draper a thought struck him. The narrator was then an apprentice in a draper's shop. Examples of draperdraper This particular draper was a cloth entrepreneur who employed several wool-pickers, spinners, weavers and burlers36 for wages. This means that the textileworkers had more or less steady employment with their draper, although the amounts they produced varied considerably. Around ten labourers, both men and women, came to the draper to collect their wages regularly, usually once a week. This could easily be seen in the simple commercial transaction between a draper and his customer. Elements such as the shine of metal armour, the folds of clothes and draper y and, above all, fleeting facial expressions such as laughter, are transformed. Draper has argued that the facts of evil provide a serious challenge to theism. Only one mercer may be mustered, but there were drapers and tailors, the latter more noticeably by the mid-sixteenth century, and a good many were occupied in the victualling trades. Draper et al.172 reported that 'passive selfharm' behaviour, like refusal to eat, drink or take medication predicted mortality in nursing home residents. Draper, as he moved to face the multiracial future, moved some distance from the fantasy of erasure, but did not altogether abandon it. Some pages of the account book of an anonymous draper that have survived in the archives give us clues about the work and wages of these labourers. Draper could not accept this situation with entire equanimity, however. Draper's formulation would be an evidential challenge only for theists who take their theism as a hypothesis. Draper (loc. cit.) says that these insects locate themselves at the base of the leaf stalks which they completely cover with the white flocculent or felted matter. Wells' own employment began as a draper's apprentice, but ended rather abruptly when the young man was told he was not refined enough to be a draper. Taking the drapery trade, we shall cover everything the draper sells. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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