Draper was originally a term for a retailer, and wholesaler, of cloth that was mainly for clothing.
A draper may additionally operate as a cloth merchant or a haberdasher. Drapers were an important trade guild during the medieval period. The sellers of cloth operated out of draper's shops. However the original meaning of the term has now largely fallen out of use.
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