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Drape   /dreɪp/   Listen
verb
Drape  v. t.  (past & past part. draped; pres. part. draping)  
1.
To cover or adorn with drapery or folds of cloth, or as with drapery; as, to drape a bust, a building, etc. "The whole people were draped professionally." "These starry blossoms, (of the snow) pure and white, Soft falling, falling, through the night, Have draped the woods and mere".
2.
To rail at; to banter. (Obs.)


Drape  v. i.  
1.
To make cloth. (Obs.)
2.
To design drapery, arrange its folds, etc., as for hangings, costumes, statues, etc.





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"Drape" Quotes from Famous Books



... search satisfied him that they were not in the room, and, pausing only to drape himself in the counterpane, he made his way into the next. He passed on to the others, and then, with a growing sense of alarm, stole softly downstairs and making his way to the shop continued the search. ...
— Ship's Company, The Entire Collection • W.W. Jacobs
... easily made of boards ten inches wide, fastened together in a bevelled manner, and covered with buff cambric, ornamented with gold paper. Oval frames are frequently used, but they are not so easy to arrange and manage as a square frame. Cover the floor of the stage with a dark woollen carpet, drape the ceiling with light blue cambric, the background with black cambric; the sides should be arranged in the same style as the side scenes of a theatrical stage. Stout frames of wood, two feet wide, reaching to the ceiling, and covered with ...
— Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants • James H. Head
... are heard in every part of the city. Those swarthy faces, those vestments formed of a few pieces of red or violet stuff whose deep colours attract the eye, even those very rags in which this artistic people drape themselves with grace, give to the populace a picturesque appearance, whilst in other countries they exhibit nothing but the miseries of civilization. A certain taste for finery and decoration is often found in Naples accompanied with an absolute lack ...
— Corinne, Volume 1 (of 2) - Or Italy • Mme de Stael
... of grand fetes in Europe, when house decoration is done with lavishness, people, to make their homes more attractive, drape with beautiful rugs the balconies, the loggias, and the front walls of buildings. The richness and color of these rugs blend harmoniously with flags and other emblems, producing an effect ...
— Rugs: Oriental and Occidental, Antique & Modern - A Handbook for Ready Reference • Rosa Belle Holt
... life-sized portrait of Santa Claus over the fireplace here," said Uncle Dick, "and you two girlies may get busy at once making garlands of evergreen to drape about him, and also over these others, for they must all have a touch of green; ...
— Grandfather's Love Pie • Miriam Gaines


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