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What (who) is drape - definition
DEPICTION OF THE FOLDS AND WOVEN PATTERNS OF LOOSE-HANGING CLOTHING ON THE HUMAN FORM
Drape; Drapes; Draperies; Draping
![[[Funerary stele]] of a Greek dancer, 400s BC](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/DSC00205 - Stele funeraria con danzatrice - Arte greca del sec. V aC. - Foto di G. Dall'Orto.jpg?width=200 "[[Funerary stele]] of a Greek dancer, 400s BC")
![[[Poppaea]], wife of Nero](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Poppaea Olimpia.jpg?width=200 "[[Poppaea]], wife of Nero")
![Fresco of [[Mithras]] and the Bull from the [[mithraeum]] at Marino, 3rd century CE](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Fresque Mithraeum Marino.jpg?width=200 "Fresco of [[Mithras]] and the Bull from the [[mithraeum]] at Marino, 3rd century CE")
![Anglo-Saxon king and [[witan]], 900s AD](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Witan hexateuch.jpg?width=200 "Anglo-Saxon king and [[witan]], 900s AD")
![The [[Bamberg Apocalypse]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/BambergApocalypse03CoronationOfEmperor.JPG?width=200 "The [[Bamberg Apocalypse]]")
![Anglo-Saxon miniature]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Edgar in Regularis Concordia.jpg?width=200 "Anglo-Saxon miniature]]")
![Chōgen]], Japan, 1206 AD](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Priest Shunjō.jpg?width=200 "Chōgen]], Japan, 1206 AD")
.jpg?width=200 "Buddha, Japan, 1269 AD")
![Benin Bronze]], 1500-1600](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Benin plaque in the Ethnological Museum, Berlin - 054.JPG?width=200 "Benin Bronze]], 1500-1600")
![Thomas Hudson]], drapery by [[Joseph van Aken]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Thomas Hudson (1701-1779) - Lady Lucy Manners (1717–1788), Duchess of Montrose - 290369 - National Trust.jpg?width=200 "Thomas Hudson]], drapery by [[Joseph van Aken]]")
![[[Prince William, Duke of Cumberland]], 1721-1765](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Cumberland-Reynolds.jpg?width=200 "[[Prince William, Duke of Cumberland]], 1721-1765")
![[[Krishna]] dancing and playing the flute, Orissa, India, ~1800 AD](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Flöte spielender Gott Krishna Museum Rietberg RVI 530.jpg?width=200 "[[Krishna]] dancing and playing the flute, Orissa, India, ~1800 AD")
Drape
·vi To make cloth.
II. Drape ·vt To rail at; to Banter.
III. Drape ·vi To design drapery, arrange its folds, ·etc., as for hangings, costumes, statues, ·etc.
IV. Drape ·vt To cover or adorn with drapery or folds of cloth, or as with drapery; as, to drape a bust, a building, ·etc.
drape
(drapes, draping, draped)
1.
If you drape a piece of cloth somewhere, you place it there so that it hangs down in a casual and graceful way.
Natasha took the coat and draped it over her shoulders...
She had a towel draped around her neck.
= hang
VERB: V n prep, V-ed prep
2.
If someone or something is draped in a piece of cloth, they are loosely covered by it.
The coffin had been draped in a Union Jack...
He draped himself in the Canadian flag and went round the track...
VERB: be V-ed in/with n, V n in/with n
3.
If you drape a part of your body somewhere, you lay it there in a relaxed and graceful way.
Nicola slowly draped herself across the couch...
He draped his arm over Daniels' shoulder...
VERB: V pron-refl prep, V n prep
4.
Drapes are pieces of heavy fabric that you hang from the top of a window and can close to keep the light out or stop people looking in. (AM; in BRIT, use curtains
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N-COUNT: usu pl
drape
v. a.
Cover with drapery.
Wikipedia
Drapery
Drapery is a general word referring to cloths or textiles (Old French draperie, from Late Latin drappuscode: lat promoted to code: la ). It may refer to cloth used for decorative purposes – such as around windows – or to the trade of retailing cloth, originally mostly for clothing, formerly conducted by drapers.
Examples of use of drape
1. The couple are planning next to drape seven miles of the Arkansas River in fabric.
2. I think I‘m going to have this size drape there, or this color.
3. She carefully snipped across a drape of soft white cloth for a shirt.
4. Some cheered when the gray drape was pulled away from the monument.
5. But I don‘t mind as deliriously happy people drape the flag across my face for the third time.