Plural of draper; merchants who sell cloth and fabric, or tradespeople who make garments.
From Middle English 'drapere,' derived from Old French 'drappier,' ultimately from 'drap' (cloth). The '-er' suffix denotes a person who deals in or makes something.
The Drapers' Company, founded in medieval London, is one of the oldest surviving trade guilds and still exists today—it shows how cloth merchants became so economically powerful they created institutions that lasted centuries.
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