different between draper vs mercer

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)

1. 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

1. 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

English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman marcer, mercer (“merchant, textile merchant”), from merz (“commodity”) (from Latin merx).

Pronunciation

• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /?m?s?/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?m??s?/

Noun

mercer (plural mercers)

1. A merchant dealing in fabrics and textiles, especially silks and other fine cloths.
   • 1600, Ben Jonson, Cynthia's Revels

     ... Acolastus-Polypragmon-Asotus, is here present (by the help of his mercer, tailor, milliner, sempster, and so forth) at his designed hour...

   • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses

     He passed, dallying, the windows of Brown Thomas, silk mercers.

Translations

See also

• haberdasher

Anagrams

• Cremer

Latin

Verb

mercer

1. first-person singular present active subjunctive of mercor