Hypertext Webster Gateway: "draped"

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.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

draped
adj 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" [syn: {cloaked},
{clothed}, {mantled}, {wrapped}]
2: covered in folds of cloth; "velvet-draped windows"


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