Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Draping"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Drape \Drape\, 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.
The whole people were draped professionally. --De
Quincey.
These starry blossoms, [of the snow] pure and white,
Soft falling, falling, through the night, Have
draped the woods and mere. --Bungay.
2. To rail at; to banter. [Obs.] --Sir W. Temple.
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