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Cosa (chi) è drapery - definizione

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
  • Drapery used as window [[curtain]]s

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.
Drapery is cloth that you buy in a shop. (BRIT; in AM, use dry goods
)
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.

Esempi dal corpus di testo per 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.