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Drape   /dreɪp/   Listen
Drape

noun
1.
Hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window).  Synonyms: curtain, drapery, mantle, pall.
2.
The manner in which fabric hangs or falls.
3.
A sterile covering arranged over a patient's body during a medical examination or during surgery in order to reduce the possibility of contamination.





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"Drape" Quotes from Famous Books



... pencilling; their hair is light and short; their heads, small and round, rest squarely upon necks columnar as the trunks of trees. Woollen tunics, open at the breast, sleeveless and loosely girt, drape their bodies, leaving bare arms and legs of such development that they at once suggest the arena; and when thereto we add their careless, confident, insolent manner, we cease to wonder that the people give them way, and stop ...
— Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ • Lew Wallace
... and remoteness in his books. Only when buried in the deep world of ancient story or when ranging through the widest field of time did he become most himself. Then he invited no comparisons with familiar actualities and could assemble the most magnificent glories according to his whims and could drape them in the most gorgeous stuffs. What especially touched his imagination was the spectacle of imperial Rome as interpreted to him by French decadence: that lust for power and sensation, those incredible temples, palaces, feasts, revelries, blasphemies, butcheries. ...
— Contemporary American Novelists (1900-1920) • Carl Van Doren


Words linked to "Drape" :   blind, furnishing, eyehole, style, theater curtain, mode, turn up, way, fashion, cover, screen, drop cloth, drop, portiere, set up, covering, frontal, shower curtain, festoon, arrange, manner, drop curtain, spread over, fold, theatre curtain, eyelet, fold up


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