On this page you'll find 4 example sentences with Drapier. Discover the meaning, how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Drapier in a sentence
Drapier meaning
Obsolete form of draper (“textile merchant”).
Using Drapier
- The main meaning on this page is: Obsolete form of draper (“textile merchant”).
Context around Drapier
- Average sentence length in these examples: 37.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 2 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 4 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Drapier
- In this selection, "drapier" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 37.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, home stand out and add context to how "drapier" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include affair of drapier s letters and drapier s letters. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "drapier" sits close to words such as aaai, aani and aarne, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with drapier
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Drapier's Letters (1724) was a series of pamphlets against the monopoly granted by the English government to William Wood to provide the Irish with copper coinage. (27 words)
Lindalino The five-paragraph episode in Part III, telling of the rebellion of the surface city of Lindalino against the flying island of Laputa, was an obvious allegory to the affair of Drapier's Letters of which Swift was proud. (40 words)
Though hardly a secret (on returning to Dublin after one of his trips to England, Swift was greeted with a banner, "Welcome Home, Drapier") no one turned Swift in, although there was an unsuccessful attempt to prosecute the publisher Harding. (40 words)
His printer, Edward Waters, was convicted of seditious libel in 1720, but four years later a grand jury refused to find that the Drapier's Letters (which, though written under a pseudonym, were universally known to be Swift's work) were seditious. (42 words)
Lindalino The five-paragraph episode in Part III, telling of the rebellion of the surface city of Lindalino against the flying island of Laputa, was an obvious allegory to the affair of Drapier's Letters of which Swift was proud. (40 words)
Though hardly a secret (on returning to Dublin after one of his trips to England, Swift was greeted with a banner, "Welcome Home, Drapier") no one turned Swift in, although there was an unsuccessful attempt to prosecute the publisher Harding. (40 words)
Example sentences (4)
Drapier's Letters (1724) was a series of pamphlets against the monopoly granted by the English government to William Wood to provide the Irish with copper coinage.
His printer, Edward Waters, was convicted of seditious libel in 1720, but four years later a grand jury refused to find that the Drapier's Letters (which, though written under a pseudonym, were universally known to be Swift's work) were seditious.
Lindalino The five-paragraph episode in Part III, telling of the rebellion of the surface city of Lindalino against the flying island of Laputa, was an obvious allegory to the affair of Drapier's Letters of which Swift was proud.
Though hardly a secret (on returning to Dublin after one of his trips to England, Swift was greeted with a banner, "Welcome Home, Drapier") no one turned Swift in, although there was an unsuccessful attempt to prosecute the publisher Harding.