drape

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A living room with elegant drapes

noun

The definition of a drape is a cloth that hangs loosely or in folds.
An example of a drape is a curtain.

verb

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.

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drape

transitive verb

draped, drap′ing

to cover, hang, or decorate with or as with cloth or clothes in loose folds
to arrange (a garment, cloth, etc.) artistically in folds or hangings

Origin of drape

Middle English drapen, to weave into cloth, drape from Old French draper from drap: see drab

to hang or fall in folds, as a garment, cloth, etc.

1. cloth hanging in loose folds, or hanging loosely from the thing that it covers: a surgical drape
2. a heavy curtain that hangs in loose folds; esp., either of a pair of such curtains
the manner in which cloth hangs or is cut to hang, as in a garment

Origin of drape

Fr drap, cloth

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drape

verb

draped, drap·ing, drapes

verb

transitive

To cover, hang, or decorate with cloth in loose folds: draped the coffin with a flag; a robe that draped her figure.
To arrange or let fall in loose folds: draping the banner from the balcony.
To hang or rest limply: draped my legs over the chair.

verb

intransitive

To fall or hang in loose folds: arranged the cloth to drape over the table legs.

noun

A drapery; a curtain.
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.
The way in which cloth falls or hangs: adjusted the drape of the gown.

Origin of drape

Middle English drapen to weave from Old French draper from drap cloth from Late Latin drappus

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Noun

(plural drapes)

(UK) A curtain, a drapery.
(US) See drapes.
(US) A youth subculture distinguished by its sharp dress, especially peg-leg pants (1950s: e.g. Baltimore, MD). Antonym: square

Verb

(third-person singular simple present drapes, present participle draping, simple past and past participle draped)

To cover or adorn with drapery or folds of cloth, or as with drapery; as, to drape a bust, a building, etc.
To rail at; to banter.
To make cloth.
To design drapery, arrange its folds, etc., as for hangings, costumes, statues, etc.
To hang or rest limply
To spread over, cover.

Origin

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.

See also: drapé

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drape - Medical Definition

v.

To cover, dress, or hang with cloth in loose folds.

n.

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.