Mr Frith says that the head of a well-known firm of drapers in Regent Street refused to employ shopmen who wore moustaches, or men who parted their hair down the middle.
Tinge~, the per-centage allowed by drapers and clothiers to their assistants upon the sale of old-fashioned articles.
Spiffs~, the per-centages allowed by drapers to their young men when they effect a sale of old-fashioned or undesirable stock.
It is usual for drapersto combine the sale of "drapery," i.
The firm occupied the whole of the building up and downstairs, asdrapers and carpet warehousemen, and I might state that the late Henry Brown, Walter Shears, late custom appraiser, and Edward White were on the staff.
The great Drapers Company embraced in its membership many women who trained apprentices and carried on business, as did the male members.
Hither came the officials of the Merchant Tailors' Company bearing a silver yard measure, to try the measures of the clothiers and drapers to see if they were correct.
The Pied Poudre was originally instituted to determine disputes regarding debts and contracts, when the churchyard of the ancient Priory contained the booths and standings of the Drapers and Clothiers.
Accordingly, they again allowed the drapers such unreasonable credit, that it was impossible for the most substantial clothier to carry on the trade, while the returns were so slow and precarious.
Mrs. Draper; once at Sunday supper with the Drapers after Church; once on a Saturday when Mrs. Draper asked her to tea again; and once when he called to take her for a walk in the fields.
She was glad she had seen it through to the end when the clergymen's and squires' daughters went and the daughters of Bristol drapers and publicans and lodging-house keepers came.
This is a favor for you to address this glorious miting where the Welsh drapers will attend and the Missus Enos-Harries will sing 'Land of my Fathers.
The Welsh draperswere alarmed, and in a rage with Ben.
All the drapersand dairies shall be there in crowds.
She'll not give a skute at the heirs the ould man's telling of; but them young drapers and druggists, they'll plague the life out of the girl.
The Drapers might have realised that the time for restricting trade to the freemen of their company was past.
In 1605 the company of Drapers was incorporated by James I.
Oswestry however continued to be the chief emporium, and the Drapers of Shrewsbury repaired thither every Monday for a long period after the date of the statutes we have been considering.
The town had been willing to support the Drapers in their measures to draw the Welsh trade to Shrewsbury, but it did not approve of the line of action they tried subsequently to take, namely, to limit all the trade to their own members.
Even the wealthy company of the Drapershad been compelled to relinquish their annual holiday, at which open house was kept for town and neighbourhood, in 1781.
The Mercers and the Drapershad frequently made mutual complaints of intrusion: the Mercers and the Glovers also appear as great rivals in later years.
The Drapers and Mercers had never gone to Kingsland, and gradually the other companies began to withdraw from the Show.
Drapers of Shrewsbury in their capacity of state agents for the regulation of industry[134].
The Drapers assembled beneath, and proceeded to make their purchases in order of seniority, according to ancient usage.
This statute recited that there had been time out of mind a Gild of the art and mystery of Drapers legally incorporated in Shrewsbury, which had usually set on work above six hundred persons of the art or science of Shearmen or Frizers.
At Shrewsbury the almshouses of the Drapers and Mercers survived[122], and the vicar of S.
It was the custom of the Drapers to attend divine worship in the church of St Alkmund before setting out for the Oswestry market.
The drapers had several roomy shops containing shelves piled with cloths of all colors and grades, tapestries, pillows, and 'bankers and dorsers' to soften hard wooden benches.
The entire trade of a town might be controlled by its drapers or by a company of the Merchant Adventurers.
From Richard the Second onwards kings borrowed as readily as their subjects from the drapers and mercers of the towns.
The Drapers had a school at Shrewsbury (Hibbert’s Inf.
SIR, "I have this day received your letter, conveying to me the great honour conferred upon me by the worshipful Company of Drapers of London, by presenting me with the freedom of their company.
After the 1st of October the drapers had determined to close their shops at seven o’clock.
The grocers anddrapers had determined to close their shops on the day following Christmas Day.
The Drapers (with one exception) had agreed to close on Thursdays at four o’clock.
The first charter to the company of drapersor dealers in cloth in London was in 1364.
Butt drapers and eke skynners in the town For such folk han a special orison That florisshed is with curses here and there And ay shall till they be payd of their here.
The maior with his companie of the drapers made all that part betwixt Bishops gate and Alhalowes church in the same wall.
The two linen drapers of Caen, seen in the street, had the commonplace appearance of the millions who make up the ordinary stock of humanity, which is, in fact, what they represented.
What events would have been necessary to raise our two linen drapers into the light of glory I cannot say.
He goes by London Stone through Cannon Street, where drapers offered him much cloth.
The entire trade of a town might be controlled by its drapers or by a company of the Merchant Adventurers of London.
All endeavours of accommodation between Lord Strutt and his drapers proved vain.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "drapers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
