1.
[syn: cloaked, clothed, draped, mantled, wrapped]
2. covered in folds of cloth;
- Example: "velvet-draped windows"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Drape \Drape\ (dr[=a]p), 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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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
draped \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.
[WordNet 1.5]
2. curtained; -- of windows; as, velvet-draped windows.
Opposite of curtainless.
[PJC]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
draped
adj 1: covered with or as if with clothes or a wrap or cloak;
"leaf-clothed trees"; "fog-cloaked meadows"; "a beam
draped with cobwebs"; "cloud-wrapped peaks" [syn:
cloaked, clothed, draped, mantled, wrapped]
2: covered in folds of cloth; "velvet-draped windows"