Definitions for Drape

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Spelling: [dreyp]

IPA: /dreɪp/

Drape is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 81 anagrams from letters in Drape (adepr).

Definitions for Drape

noun

1. a curtain or hanging of heavy fabric and usually considerable length, especially either of a pair for covering a window and drawn open and shut horizontally.
2. either of a pair of similar curtains extending or draped at the sides of a window, French doors, or the like as decoration.
3. manner or style of hanging:

verb (used with object)

1. to cover or hang with cloth or other fabric, especially in graceful folds; adorn with drapery.
2. to adjust (curtains, clothes, etc.) into graceful folds, attractive lines, etc.
3. to arrange, hang, or let fall carelessly:
4. Medicine/Medical, Surgery. to place cloth so as to surround (a part to be examined, treated, or operated upon).
5. (in reinforced-concrete construction) to hang (reinforcement) in a certain form between two points before pouring the concrete.
6. to put a black cravat on (a flagstaff) as a token of mourning.

verb (used without object)

1. to hang, fall, or become arranged in folds, as drapery:

Origin of Drape

1400-50; late Middle English Middle French draper, derivative of drap cloth (see drab¹)

Examples for Drape

“Yoga has helped increase my range of motion and flexibility and has addressed my imbalances from the scoliosis,” says Dr. drape.

With a one-finger gesture he signals the nurse to drape her rug over the chair.

Then, after doing up her hair, I began to drape a material around her.

Religion, indigestion, priggishness, or discontent may drape the panes.

Sneaker and clothing brands routinely dole out buckets of dough to drape their swag over popular cultural characters.

Riveters log hundreds of hours making the banners that drape the stadium throughout the season.

The rock is grim when it is bare; it wants verdure to drape it if it is to be lovely.

Next to it, the drape framing the window was not hanging right.

A large part of a fashion model's job is physical, moving and shaping her body to highlight the drape of the clothing.

Dr. drape recognizes that she will always have to manage her scoliosis.