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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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