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ale-draper en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (obsolete) An alehouse keeper or publican
   • Fieldhouse, W., the elder, Yeadon, Leeds, joiner, and ale draper, (sued with W. Fieldhouse the younger) 1832, The Legal Examiner - Volume 2, page 26:
   • 1911, Kathleen Schlesinger, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 3 : Barrel-organ Mr Thomas Brown relates that one Mr Stephens, a Poultry author, proposed to parliament for any one that should presume to keep an organ in a Publick House to be fined £20 and made incapable of being an ale-draper for the future.
   • No other occupation have I but to be an ale-draper. 1592, H. Chettle, Kind-harts Dreames:
   • (Burial of) Isaiah Clifton ale-draper . 1785, Parish Register of Barmston, East Yorkshire:

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Deriveds

ale-drapery