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A place where apes are kept. [R.] Kingsley.

woolen stuffs in general. People who ought to be weighing out grocery or measuring out drapery. Macaulay.

A building or inclosure used for the cultivation of grapes.

Jesting; buffoonery. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Table linen; also, linen clothing, or linen in general. [Obs.] Gayton.

Like paper; having the thinness or consistence of paper. Gray.

Mourning garments of a black color; funereal drapery. Friends weeping, and blacks, and obsequies, and the like show death terrible. Bacon. That was the full time they used to wear blacks for the death of their fathers. Sir T. North.

Resembling paper or parchment; of paper-like texture; papery.

the vile In loathsome beds, and leavest the kingly couch Shak. Like one that wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams. Bryant.

en or conceal, and admitting of being drawn back or up, and reclosed at pleasure; esp., drapery of cloth or lace hanging round a bed or at a window; in theaters, and like places, a movable screen for concealing the stage.

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.

Covered or supplied with drapery. [R.] Byron.

Having some of the forms, such as drapery or the like, too sharply defined. "An edgy style of sculpture." Hazlitt.

A dealer in drapery goods of various descriptions, as laces, silks, trimmings, etc.

To cover, decorate, or furnish by hanging pictures trophies, drapery, and the like, or by covering with paper hangings; -- said of a wall, a room, etc. Hung be the heavens with black. Shak. And hung thy holy roofs with savage spoils. Dryden.

That which is hung as lining or drapery for the walls of a room, as tapestry, paper, etc., or to cover or drape a door or window; -- used chiefly in the plural. Nor purple hangings clothe the palace walls. Dryden.

A piece of ornament drapery or short decorative hanging, pendent from a shelf or from the casing above a window, hiding the curtain fixtures, or the like.

the human body that may be put in any attitude; -- used for showing the disposition of drapery, etc. (b) A mere puppet; one who serves the will of others without independent volition. -- Lay race, that part of a lay on which the shuttle travels in weaving; -- called also shuttle race.

. See under Hare, and Lamb. -- Lettuce opium. See Lactucarium. -- Sea lettuce, certain papery green seaweeds of the genus Ulva.

The representation of a mantle, or the drapery behind and around a coat of arms: -- called also lambrequin.