Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Cloth or clothing gracefully arranged in loose folds.
- noun A piece or pieces of heavy fabric hanging straight in loose folds, used as a curtain.
- noun Cloth; fabric.
- noun Chiefly British The business of a draper.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The occupation of a draper; the trade of making or of selling cloth.
- noun Cloth, or textile fabrics of any description.
- noun Such cloth or textile fabrics when used for garments or for upholstery; specifically, in sculp. and painting, the representation of the clothing or dress of human figures; also, tapestry, hangings, curtains, etc.
- To drape; cover with draperies.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The occupation of a draper; cloth-making, or dealing in cloth.
- noun Cloth, or woolen stuffs in general.
- noun A textile fabric used for decorative purposes, especially when hung loosely and in folds carefully disturbed; as: (a) Garments or vestments of this character worn upon the body, or shown in the representations of the human figure in art. (b) Hangings of a room or hall, or about a bed.
- noun See under
Casting .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun uncountable
Cloth draped gracefully infolds . - noun countable A piece of cloth, hung vertically as a
curtain ; adrape .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window)
- noun cloth gracefully draped and arranged in loose folds
Etymologies
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Examples
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Folded drapery is placed across the bust and over her shoulder.
Draped Bust Dollar, Small Eagle, 1795-1798 : Coin Guide 2010
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First to appear onstage, in front of the eponymous crimson drapery, is Nate Newton as Hieronymus the Host, a largely mute M.C. who's dressed like an organ-grinder's monkey, with red sequined suspenders and a too-small red sequined top hat.
Theater review: 'Blood Sweat & Fears III: The Red Velvet Curtain' Celia Wren 2010
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Folded drapery is placed across the bust and over her shoulder.
Draped Bust Dollar, Heraldic Eagle, 1798-1804 : Coin Guide 2009
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The hardware for such drapery is difficult to manage, especially those terrible drapery hooks.
Archive 2007-01-01 2007
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In this mortal frame of mine which is made of a hundred bones and nine orfices there is something, and this something is called a wind-swept spirit for lack of a better name, for it is much like a thin drapery that is torn and swept away at the slightest stir of the wind.
And What of the Haiku? : Kwame Dawes : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007
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The hardware for such drapery is difficult to manage, especially those terrible drapery hooks.
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The drapery is Greek, with one trifling variation, -- the fastening of the dress is shown upon the right shoulder.
The New England Magazine Volume 1, No. 6, June, 1886, Bay State Monthly Volume 4, No. 6, June, 1886 Various
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They sometimes lay carelessly about the house, and whenever she saw the tall chimney of his sash-and-blind factory looming above the blank date-line she always looked for a female in Greek drapery seated on a cogged wheel at the base of it.
Under the Skylights Henry Blake Fuller 1893
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Their clothing, or rather drapery, is a mystery, for it covers and drapes perfectly, yet has no make, far less fit, and leaves every graceful movement unimpeded.
The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither Isabella Lucy 1883
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Yes, for she looked; the frame was only some native reeds or canes and a bit of board; the rest was white muslin drapery, which would pack away in a very few square inches of room, but now hung in pretty folds around the glass and covered the frame.
The Old Helmet 1864
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