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noun

Drapery n. (pl. draperies)

The occupation of a draper; cloth-making, or dealing in cloth.

Cloth, or woolen stuffs in general. "People who ought to be weighing out grocery or measuring out drapery."

A textile fabric used for decorative purposes, especially when hung loosely and in folds carefully disturbed; as:

(a)

Garments or vestments of this character worn upon the body, or shown in the representations of the human figure in art.

(b)

Hangings of a room or hall, or about a bed. "Like one that wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams." "All the decent drapery of life is to be rudely torn off."

Casting of draperies. See under Casting. "The casting of draperies... is one of the most important of an artist's studies."

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Etymology of 'Drapery'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Drapery" Quotes from Famous Books

... Cora. "But now let us be happy. See the stars, how they glitter," and she turned back the drapery from the window. "And see, we shall have a great, big, bright moon to show ...

— The Motor Girls Through New England - or, Held by the Gypsies • Margaret Penrose

... be he priest or lay brother, theologian or statesman, is nothing if not patriotic. Even the Chinese gods and goddesses which, clothed in Indian drapery and still preserving their Aryan features, were imported to Japan, could not hold their own in competition with the popularity of the indigenous inhabitants of the Japanese pantheon. The normal Japanese eye does not see the ideals ...

— The Religions of Japan - From the Dawn of History to the Era of Meiji • William Elliot Griffis

... have always been dutiful and virtuous, and consequently you are rewarded. You have never caused me a grief, and now, thank the good God you are prosperous." She looked at her almost adoringly, and at last touched the soft thick gray velvet of her drapery with reverence. "Do you wear such things as this every day?" ...

— Mere Girauds Little Daughter • Frances Hodgson Burnett

... the expense of our friends—this butterfly may fold his wings, and lie under cover in the cold air of Glendearg; but were he at Holyrood, he would, did his life depend on it, expand his spangled drapery in the eyes of the queen and court—Rather than fail of distinction, he would sue for love to our gracious sovereign—the eyes of all men would be upon him in the course of three short days, and the ...

— The Monastery • Sir Walter Scott

... among the tradespeople at Grimworth, their uncertainty concerning the nature of the business which the sallow-complexioned stranger was about to set up in the vacant shop, naturally gave some additional strength to the fears of the less sanguine. If he was going to sell drapery, it was probable that a pale- faced fellow like that would deal in showy and inferior articles—printed cottons and muslins which would leave their dye in the wash-tub, jobbed linen full of knots, and flannel that would soon look like gauze. ...

— Brother Jacob • George Eliot

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