DRAPE

v.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
v.

To cover or adorn with drapery or folds of cloth, or as with drapery; as, to drape a bust, a building, etc. The whole people were draped professionally. De Quincey. These starry blossoms, [of the snow] pure and white, Soft falling, falling, through the night, Have draped the woods and mere. Bungay.

2.
v.

To rail at; to banter. [Obs.] Sir W. Temple.

3.
v.

To make cloth. [Obs.] Bacon.

4.
v.

To design drapery, arrange its folds, etc., as for hangings, costumes, statues, etc.


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