GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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    Drape (drāp), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Draped (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Draping (?).] [F. draper, fr. drap cloth. See 3d Drab.]
    1. To cover or adorn with drapery or folds of cloth, or as with drapery; as, “to drape a bust, a building, etc.”

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    The whole people were draped professionally. De Quincey.

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    These starry blossoms, [of the snow] pure and white,

    Soft falling, falling, through the night,

    Have draped the woods and mere. Bungay.

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

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    draped adj.
    1. covered with or as if with clothes or a wrap or cloak; as, “a beam draped with cobwebs”. Contrasted with uncovered.

    Syn. -- cloaked, clothed, mantled, wrapped.

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    2. curtained; -- of windows; as, “velvet-draped windows”. Opposite of curtainless.

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