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draper
English
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman draper, from Old French drapier, from drap + -ier
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?d?e?.p?(?)/
- Rhymes: -e?p?(r)
Noun
draper (plural drapers)
- One who sells cloths; a dealer in cloths.
Related terms
- drape
- drapery
Translations
Anagrams
- parred
French
Etymology
From Middle French, from Old French draper (“to drape", also, "to full cloth”), from drap (“cloth, drabcloth”), from Late Latin drappus, drapus (“drabcloth, kerchief”), a word first recorded in the Capitularies of Charlemagne, probably from Old Low Frankish *drap, *dr?p- (“that which is fulled, drabcloth”) from Proto-Germanic *drap-, *dr?p- (“something beaten”), from *drepan? (“to beat, strike”), from Proto-Indo-European *dhrebh- (“to beat, crush, make or become thick”). Cognate with English drub (“to beat”), Low German drapen, dräpen (“to strike”). More at drape.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d?a.pe/
Verb
draper
- to drape
Conjugation
Related terms
- drapeau
References
Further reading
- “draper” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- perdra
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diaper
English
Etymology
From Middle English dyaper, from Old French dyapre, diaspre, from Medieval Latin diaspra, diasprum from Byzantine Greek ???????? (díaspros, adj), from ???- (dia-, “across”) + ?????? (áspros, “white”). Doublet of jasper.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?da?(?)p?/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?da?(?)p?/
- Rhymes: -a?p?(?), -a??p?(?)
- Hyphenation: di?a?per, dia?per
Noun
diaper (countable and uncountable, plural diapers)
- A textile fabric having a diamond-shaped pattern formed by alternating directions of thread.
- A towel or napkin made from such fabric.
- (Canada, US) An absorbent garment worn by a baby, by a young child not yet toilet trained, or by an adult who is incontinent; a nappy.
- The diamond pattern associated with diaper textiles.
- Surface decoration of any sort which consists of the constant repetition of one or more simple figures or units of design evenly spaced.
Synonyms
- (absorbent garment): nappy (British, Australia); napkin (British, archaic); napkin (South African)
Derived terms
- diaperhood
- diaperism
- diaperwork
- incontinence diaper
Translations
Verb
diaper (third-person singular simple present diapers, present participle diapering, simple past and past participle diapered)
- To put diapers on someone.
- 2019, Michael Bent, Rosalie Bent, Understanding Adult Babies: Their Psychology and Lifestyles
- I diaper myself or she helps Diaper me and sometimes I get to wet them, she knows I like that. And she whispers in my ear that "baby wants to make a cummie in his Diapers […]
- Diapering a baby is something you have to learn fast.
- 2019, Michael Bent, Rosalie Bent, Understanding Adult Babies: Their Psychology and Lifestyles
- To draw flowers or figures, as upon cloth.
- 1622, Henry Peacham (Jr.), The Compleat Gentleman
- If you diaper upon folds, let your work be broken.
- 1622, Henry Peacham (Jr.), The Compleat Gentleman
Translations
Anagrams
- Piedra, aperid, paired, pardie, piedra, repaid
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old French dyapre.
Noun
diaper
- Alternative form of dyaper
Etymology 2
From Old French diaprer.
Verb
diaper
- Alternative form of dyapren
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