Drape meaning
Drape is defined as to cover or hang something with cloth, or to arrange cloth to fall in folds.
An example of drape is to put a light shawl over your shoulders.
verb
The definition of a drape is a cloth that hangs loosely or in folds.
An example of a drape is a curtain.
noun
To cover, hang, or decorate with cloth in loose folds.
Draped the coffin with a flag; a robe that draped her figure.
verb
To arrange or let fall in loose folds.
Draping the banner from the balcony.
verb
To hang or rest limply.
Draped my legs over the chair.
verb
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To fall or hang in loose folds.
Arranged the cloth to drape over the table legs.
verb
A drapery; a curtain.
noun
A paper or cloth covering placed over a patient's body during medical examination or treatment, designed to provide privacy or a sterile operative field.
noun
The way in which cloth falls or hangs.
Adjusted the drape of the gown.
noun
To cover, hang, or decorate with or as with cloth or clothes in loose folds.
verb
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To arrange (a garment, cloth, etc.) artistically in folds or hangings.
verb
To hang or fall in folds, as a garment, cloth, etc.
verb
The manner in which cloth hangs or is cut to hang, as in a garment.
noun
To cover, dress, or hang with cloth in loose folds.
verb
A paper or cloth covering placed over a patient's body during medical examination or treatment, designed to provide privacy or a sterile operative field.
noun
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(UK) A curtain, a drapery.
noun
(US) See drapes.
noun
To cover or adorn with drapery or folds of cloth, or as with drapery; as, to drape a bust, a building, etc.
verb
To design drapery, arrange its folds, etc., as for hangings, costumes, statues, etc.
verb
Origin of drape
- Middle English drapen to weave from Old French draper from drap cloth from Late Latin drappus
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- From Middle English drape (noun, “a drape”), from Old French draper (“to drape", also, "to full cloth”), from drap (“cloth, drabcloth”), from Late Latin drappus, drapus (“drabcloth, kerchief”), a word first recorded in the Capitularies of Charlemagne, probably from Frankish *drapi, *drāpi (“that which is fulled, drabcloth”, literally “that which is struck or for striking”), from Proto-Germanic *drapiz (“a strike, hit, blow”) and Proto-Germanic *drēpiz (“intended for striking, to be beaten”), both from *drepaną (“to beat, strike”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrebʰ- (“to beat, crush, make or become thick”). Cognate with English drub (“to beat”), North Frisian dreep (“a blow”), Low German drapen, dräpen (“to strike”), German treffen (“to meet”), Swedish dräpa (“to slay”). More at drub.
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