draped

Adjective

WordNet 3.0

Adjective (2)

  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”Synonyms: cloakedclothedmantledwrapped
  2. covered in folds of cloth“velvet-draped windows”
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

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. [1913 Webster]

The whole people were draped professionally.— De Quincey.[1913 Webster]
These starry blossoms, [of the snow] pure and white, Soft falling, falling, through the night, Have draped the woods and mere.— Bungay.[1913 Webster]

2.To rail at; to banter. [Obs.] --Sir W. Temple. [1913 Webster]


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]

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