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Drape   /dreɪp/   Listen
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Drape  v. t.  (past & past part. draped; pres. part. draping)  
1.
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." "These starry blossoms, (of the snow) pure and white, Soft falling, falling, through the night, Have draped the woods and mere".
2.
To rail at; to banter. (Obs.)


Drape  v. i.  
1.
To make cloth. (Obs.)
2.
To design drapery, arrange its folds, etc., as for hangings, costumes, statues, etc.





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"Drape" Quotes from Famous Books



... should never adorn a slave! Rather I hail thee, Parnes,—trust to thy wild waste tract! Treeless, herbless, lifeless mountain! What matter if slacked My speed may hardly be, for homage to crag and to cave No deity deigns to drape with verdure?—at least I can breathe, Fear in thee no fraud from the blind, no lie from the mute!" Such my cry as, rapid, I ran over Parnes' ridge; Gully and gap I clambered and cleared till, sudden, a bar ...
— Graded Poetry: Seventh Year • Various
... as in a glass darkly, that which we have arranged to see. We see it in the way in which our neighbours see it; sometimes through a pink veil, sometimes through a grey. Religion, indigestion, priggishness, or discontent may drape the panes. The prismatic colours of a fashionable school of art may stain them. Inevitably, too, we see the narrow world our windows show us, not "in itself," but in relation to our own needs, moods, and preferences; which exercise a selective control upon those few aspects ...
— Practical Mysticism - A Little Book for Normal People • Evelyn Underhill
... prosperous, and include a number of landowners, and their status is gradually improving. The Darzi or tailor is not usually attached to the village community; sewn clothes have hitherto scarcely been worn among the rural population, and the weaver provides the cloths which they drape on the body and round the head. [64] The contempt with which the tailor is visited in English proverbial lore for working at a woman's occupation attaches in a precisely similar manner in India to the weaver. [65] But in ...
— The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India--Volume I (of IV) • R.V. Russell
... much as a factory workman who spends his whole life in turning one particular screw or handle on a certain instrument or machine, at which occupation he acquires the most consummate skill. In Germany, where we know how to drape such painful facts with the glorious garments of fancy, this narrow specialisation on the part of our learned men is even admired, and their ever greater deviation from the path of true culture is regarded as a moral phenomenon. 'Fidelity in small things,' 'dogged faithfulness,' become ...
— On the Future of our Educational Institutions • Friedrich Nietzsche
... Adelaide. Possibly she retained something from the depth of his individuality.... Bedient would not have said so; but there is no doubt that her importance in his life was that of a mannequin upon which to drape his ideals. Had he seen her, in the later years, he would have met the dull misery of disillusionment. Adelaide was a boy's sensational trophy. Her distant beauty and color was the art and pigment of his ...
— Fate Knocks at the Door - A Novel • Will Levington Comfort


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