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Drape

//dɹeɪp// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A curtain; a drapery.
  2. 2
    hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window) wordnet
  3. 3
    The way in which fabric falls or hangs.
  4. 4
    a sterile covering arranged over a patient's body during a medical examination or during surgery in order to reduce the possibility of contamination wordnet
  5. 5
    A member of a youth subculture distinguished by its sharp dress, especially peg-leg pants (1950s: e.g. Baltimore, MD). Antonym: square. US
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  1. 6
    the manner in which fabric hangs or falls wordnet
  2. 7
    A dress made from an entire piece of cloth, without having pieces cut away as in a fitted garment.
Verb
  1. 1
    To cover or adorn with drapery or folds of cloth, or as with drapery. transitive

    "to drape a bust, a building, etc."

  2. 2
    arrange in a particular way wordnet
  3. 3
    To spread over, cover. transitive

    "I draped my towel over the radiator to dry."

  4. 4
    place casually wordnet
  5. 5
    To rail at; to banter.

    "1672-679, William Temple, Memoirs At my Arrival , the King asked me many questions about my Journey, about the Congress, draping us for spending him so money"

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  1. 6
    cover or dress loosely with cloth wordnet
  2. 7
    To make cloth.
  3. 8
    cover as if with clothing wordnet
  4. 9
    To design drapery, arrange its folds, etc., as for hangings, costumes, statues, etc.
  5. 10
    To hang or rest limply.

    "I draped myself elegantly over the couch."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English drape (“a drape”, noun), from Old French draper (“to drape; to full cloth”), from drap (“cloth, drabcloth”), from Late Latin drappus, drapus (“drabcloth, kerchief”), a word first recorded in the Capitularies of Charlemagne, probably from Frankish *drapi, *drāpi (“that which is fulled, drabcloth”, literally “that which is struck or for striking”), from Proto-Germanic *drapiz (“a strike, hit, blow”) and Proto-Germanic *drēpiz (“intended for striking, to be beaten”), both from *drepaną (“to beat, strike”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreb- (“to beat, crush, make or become thick”). Cognate with English drub (“to beat”), North Frisian dreep (“a blow”), Low German drapen, dräpen (“to strike”), German treffen (“to meet”), Swedish dräpa (“to slay”). More at drub.

Etymology 2

From Middle English drape (“a drape”, noun), from Old French draper (“to drape; to full cloth”), from drap (“cloth, drabcloth”), from Late Latin drappus, drapus (“drabcloth, kerchief”), a word first recorded in the Capitularies of Charlemagne, probably from Frankish *drapi, *drāpi (“that which is fulled, drabcloth”, literally “that which is struck or for striking”), from Proto-Germanic *drapiz (“a strike, hit, blow”) and Proto-Germanic *drēpiz (“intended for striking, to be beaten”), both from *drepaną (“to beat, strike”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreb- (“to beat, crush, make or become thick”). Cognate with English drub (“to beat”), North Frisian dreep (“a blow”), Low German drapen, dräpen (“to strike”), German treffen (“to meet”), Swedish dräpa (“to slay”). More at drub.

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