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DRAPED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Covered in folds of cloth
Example:
velvet-draped windows
Classified under:
Similar:
curtained (furnished or concealed with curtains or draperies)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Covered with or as if with clothes or a wrap or cloak
Example:
cloud-wrapped peaks
Synonyms:
cloaked; clothed; draped; mantled; wrapped
Classified under:
Similar:
covered (overlaid or spread or topped with or enclosed within something; sometimes used as a combining form)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb drape
Context examples:
In silence they wandered together over the velvet turf and on through the broad Minstead woods, where the old lichen-draped beeches threw their circles of black shadow upon the sunlit sward.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
She was brown with the dust and draped with the cobwebs which had come from the walls of her hiding-place.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Blackened rocks and mounds of lava I had already seen everywhere peeping out from amid the luxuriant vegetation which draped them, but this asphalt pool in the jungle was the first sign that we had of actual existing activity on the slopes of the ancient crater.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I don't think the Parian Psyche Laurie gave lost any of its beauty because John put up the bracket it stood upon, that any upholsterer could have draped the plain muslin curtains more gracefully than Amy's artistic hand, or that any store-room was ever better provided with good wishes, merry words, and happy hopes than that in which Jo and her mother put away Meg's few boxes, barrels, and bundles, and I am morally certain that the spandy new kitchen never could have looked so cozy and neat if Hannah had not arranged every pot and pan a dozen times over, and laid the fire all ready for lighting the minute 'Mis. Brooke came home'.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Of a sudden, however, there came a change, for a dash of bright color flickered up on to either cheek, and her lids were slowly raised again upon eyes which sparkled with such lustre as Alleyne had never seen in human eyes before, while their gaze was fixed intently, not on the company, but on the dark tapestry which draped the wall.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Occasional brooks with pebbly bottoms and fern-draped banks gurgled down the shallow gorges in the hill, and offered good camping-grounds every evening on the banks of some rock-studded pool, where swarms of little blue-backed fish, about the size and shape of English trout, gave us a delicious supper.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Roses covered the walls of the house, draped the cornices, climbed the pillars, and ran riot over the balustrade of the wide terrace, whence one looked down on the sunny Mediterranean, and the white-walled city on its shore.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
The choicest tapestries which the looms of Arras could furnish draped the walls, whereon the battles of Judas Maccabaeus were set forth, with the Jewish warriors in plate of proof, with crest and lance and banderole, as the naive artists of the day were wont to depict them.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He rode himself within a spear's-length of his standard, clad from neck to foot in steel, but draped in the long linen gown or parement which was destined to be the cause of his death.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
