Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To strip of drapery; uncover.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To strip of drapery; to uncover or unveil.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To strip of
drapery ; touncover orunveil .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb strip something of drapery
Etymologies
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Examples
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The prince does not dress himself and a male staffer, different from the one who shaves him every morning, was there to drape and undrape the substantial princely body.
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“Thank you very much,” I said as I tried to undrape Camilla without causing any serious injuries to either of us.
DearlyDevotedDexter 2005
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Tibetans, for example, hang a curtain in front of their paintings of Buddha-figures - especially those whose forms are open to misunderstanding by the uninitiated - and undrape them only when meditating or performing rituals.
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Far above in the liquid darkness rolls the brilliant ball of the moon; beneath, in its light, lies the lake, in murmuring, troubled sleep; round about, the mountains, looking strange and blanched, seem to bare their heads and undrape their shoulders.
Stories by American Authors, Volume 5 Henry James 1879
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Menelaus’s sword was drawn to seek vengeance on the agent of his humiliation and suffering, but Helen had merely to undrape her breasts to change his mind.
The Trojan War Barry Strauss 2006
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Menelaus’s sword was drawn to seek vengeance on the agent of his humiliation and suffering, but Helen had merely to undrape her breasts to change his mind.
The Trojan War Barry Strauss 2006
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