Definitions for drapery

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drapery drap·er·y

Spelling: [drey-puh-ree]

IPA: /ˈdreɪ pə ri/

Drapery is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 148 anagrams from letters in drapery (adeprry).

Definitions for drapery

noun

1. coverings, hangings, clothing, etc., of fabric, especially as arranged in loose, graceful folds.
2. Often, draperies. long curtains, usually of heavy fabric and often designed to open and close across a window.
3. the draping or arranging of hangings, clothing, etc., in graceful folds.
4. Art. hangings, clothing, etc., as represented in sculpture or painting.
5. cloths or textile fabrics collectively.
6. British. dry goods. the stock, shop, or business of a draper.

Origin of drapery

1250-1300; Middle English draperie Old French, equivalent to drap cloth + -erie -ery

Examples for drapery

Drawings of a male body, a female body, and a piece of drapery.

They showed the beauties of the female form not apart from, but by the help of, drapery.

Amy saw him coming, and drawing the drapery on one side, smiled at him.

The artist was working on a picture of a nude Bacchante sprawled on some drapery.

Her style was "sylph," and so she was gauzy and floating in all her drapery.

Steps were heard in the gallery—the drapery at the door was agitated.

It was beyond the verge of the horizons of the drapery trade.

She arose, and with a grand sweep of her drapery, moved toward the door.

She asked to see it, and I wheeled out the easel and threw the drapery back.

Mr. Knight wished Tom to go into the drapery, but Tom would not.