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drape
[ dreyp ]
verb (used with object)
- to cover or hang with cloth or other fabric, especially in graceful folds; adorn with drapery.
- to adjust (curtains, clothes, etc.) into graceful folds, attractive lines, etc.
- to arrange, hang, or let fall carelessly:
Don't drape your feet over the chair!
- Medicine/Medical, Surgery. to place cloth so as to surround (a part to be examined, treated, or operated upon).
- (in reinforced-concrete construction) to hang (reinforcement) in a certain form between two points before pouring the concrete.
- to put a black cravat on (a flagstaff ) as a token of mourning.
verb (used without object)
- to hang, fall, or become arranged in folds, as drapery:
This silk drapes well.
noun
- a curtain or hanging of heavy fabric and usually considerable length, especially either of a pair for covering a window and drawn open and shut horizontally.
- either of a pair of similar curtains extending or draped at the sides of a window, French doors, or the like as decoration.
- manner or style of hanging:
the drape of a skirt.
drape
/ ɪ /
verb
- tr to hang or cover with flexible material or fabric, usually in folds; adorn
- to hang or arrange or be hung or arranged, esp in folds
- tr to place casually and loosely; hang
she draped her arm over the back of the chair
noun
- often plural a cloth or hanging that covers something in folds; drapery
- the way in which fabric hangs
Derived Forms
- ˈ貹, adjective
Other Word Forms
- a· a· adjective
- a·i·ٲ a·i·ٲ noun
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of drape1
Example Sentences
On Wednesday, Himanshi bid a tearful farewell to her husband as he lay in a coffin draped with the Indian flag.
“Incredible. Fifty-two points with people draped all over him all game long. The conditioning. The skill. The audacity. The belief. It’s just incredible to watch Steph at work.”
Titled Gamchha: From the Ordinary to the Extraordinary, it displayed more than 250 pieces of the short drape from 14 Indian states to show the variations of the scarf-towel across regions.
“Oh my God. There are fans outside the window,” said the singer, who had a hoodie draped over his shoulders, barely covering his torso of patchwork tattoos.
The other shows them on a hammock, with Woods lying on his back and Trump with her head resting on his chest and her arm draped around him.
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