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What (who) is drapery - 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")
drapery
(draperies)
1.
You can refer to cloth, curtains, or clothing hanging in folds as drapery or draperies.
In the dining-room the draperies create an atmosphere of elegance.
N-UNCOUNT: also N in pl
2.
My mother ran a couple of drapery shops.
N-UNCOUNT: oft N n
drapery
¦ noun (plural draperies) cloth, curtains, or clothing hanging in loose folds.
Origin
ME: from OFr. draperie, from drap 'cloth'.
Drapery
·noun Cloth, or woolen stuffs in general.
II. Drapery ·noun The occupation of a draper; cloth-making, or dealing in cloth.
III. Drapery ·noun A textile fabric used for decorative purposes, especially when hung loosely and in folds carefully disturbed; as: (a) Garments or vestments of this character worn upon the body, or shown in the representations of the human figure in art. (b) Hangings of a room or hall, or about a bed.
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 drapery
1. Their father, who sold drapery, couldn‘t afford them.
2. Rodham, joined his dad at the mill before leaving for Chicago to start his own drapery business.
3. When the heavy green drapery was drawn back from the stone to be dedicated, he made no remarks.
4. The partly built structure was draped with a three–story drapery painted to resemble the design of the finished building.
5. In 1803 he teamed up with William Smith, opening a linen drapery shop at 54 Oxford Street, Dickins & Smith.