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Drape

verb

(past & past part. draped; pres. part. draping)

Arrange in a particular way.

Place casually.

Cover as if with clothing. Synonyms: cloak, clothe, robe.

Cover or dress loosely with cloth.

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"Drape" Quotes from Famous Books

... perhaps it is right in that quality. The victories are not, perhaps, so barren as it may appear from a purely strategical, utilitarian point of view. Mr. Henry James seems to hold that belief. Nobody has rendered better, perhaps, the tenacity of temper, or known how to drape the robe of spiritual honour about the drooping form of a victor in a barren strife. And the honour is always well won; for the struggles Mr. Henry James chronicles with such subtle and direct insight are, though only ...

— Notes on Life and Letters • Joseph Conrad

... eve of Ste.-Clotilde's day, she went out, leaving every opportunity for the grand plot to mature. Had she not absented herself in like manner the year before at the same date—thus enabling an upholsterer to drape artistically her little salon with beautiful thick silk tapestries which had just been imported from the East? Her idea was that this year she might find a certain lacquered screen which she coveted. The Baroness belonged to her period; she liked Japanese ...

— Jacqueline, Complete • (Mme. Blanc) Th. Bentzon

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