drapery
IPA: drˈeɪpɝi
noun
- (uncountable) Cloth draped gracefully in folds.
- (countable) A piece of cloth, hung vertically as a curtain; a drape.
- The occupation of a draper; cloth-making, or dealing in cloth.
- Cloth, or woollen materials in general.
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Examples of "drapery" in Sentences
- The drapery is grandly composed.
- The man wears a diadem and drapery.
- The same blue silk was used for the drapery fabric.
- On the original, the breasts are well rounded by the drapery.
- The Drapery Room contains curtains, soda straws and helictites.
- Folded drapery is placed across the bust and over her shoulder.
- Also, the lavish drapery demonstrates the skill level of the artist.
- Apparatus and manner for the display of pleated drapery samples and the like.
- The hardware for such drapery is difficult to manage, especially those terrible drapery hooks.
- The drapery is Greek, with one trifling variation, -- the fastening of the dress is shown upon the right shoulder.
- Their clothing, or rather drapery, is a mystery, for it covers and drapes perfectly, yet has no make, far less fit, and leaves every graceful movement unimpeded.
- First to appear onstage, in front of the eponymous crimson drapery, is Nate Newton as Hieronymus the Host, a largely mute M.C. who's dressed like an organ-grinder's monkey, with red sequined suspenders and a too-small red sequined top hat.
- They sometimes lay carelessly about the house, and whenever she saw the tall chimney of his sash-and-blind factory looming above the blank date-line she always looked for a female in Greek drapery seated on a cogged wheel at the base of it.
- Yes, for she looked; the frame was only some native reeds or canes and a bit of board; the rest was white muslin drapery, which would pack away in a very few square inches of room, but now hung in pretty folds around the glass and covered the frame.
- In this mortal frame of mine which is made of a hundred bones and nine orfices there is something, and this something is called a wind-swept spirit for lack of a better name, for it is much like a thin drapery that is torn and swept away at the slightest stir of the wind.
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