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DRAPERY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window)
Synonyms:
curtain; drape; drapery; mantle; pall
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("drapery" is a kind of...):
blind; screen (a protective covering that keeps things out or hinders sight)
furnishing ((usually plural) the instrumentalities (furniture and appliances and other movable accessories including curtains and rugs) that make a home (or other area) livable)
Meronyms (parts of "drapery"):
eyehole; eyelet (a small hole (usually round and finished around the edges) in cloth or leather for the passage of a cord or hook or bar)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "drapery"):
drop; drop cloth; drop curtain (a curtain that can be lowered and raised onto a stage from the flies; often used as background scenery)
festoon (a curtain of fabric draped and bound at intervals to form graceful curves)
frontal (a drapery that covers the front of an altar)
portiere (a heavy curtain hung across a doorway)
shower curtain (a curtain that keeps water from splashing out of the shower area)
theater curtain; theatre curtain (a hanging cloth that conceals the stage from the view of the audience; rises or parts at the beginning and descends or closes between acts and at the end of a performance)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Cloth gracefully draped and arranged in loose folds
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("drapery" is a kind of...):
cloth; fabric; material; textile (artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers)
Derivation:
drape (cover or dress loosely with cloth)
Context examples:
The glamour of inexperience is over your eyes, he answered; and you see it through a charmed medium: you cannot discern that the gilding is slime and the silk draperies cobwebs; that the marble is sordid slate, and the polished woods mere refuse chips and scaly bark.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
A bed supported on massive pillars of mahogany, hung with curtains of deep red damask, stood out like a tabernacle in the centre; the two large windows, with their blinds always drawn down, were half shrouded in festoons and falls of similar drapery; the carpet was red; the table at the foot of the bed was covered with a crimson cloth; the walls were a soft fawn colour with a blush of pink in it; the wardrobe, the toilet-table, the chairs were of darkly polished old mahogany.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Mrs. Fairfax was summoned to give information respecting the resources of the house in shawls, dresses, draperies of any kind; and certain wardrobes of the third storey were ransacked, and their contents, in the shape of brocaded and hooped petticoats, satin sacques, black modes, lace lappets, &c., were brought down in armfuls by the abigails; then a selection was made, and such things as were chosen were carried to the boudoir within the drawing-room.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
