Drape

Definition: Drape

Drape

Noun

1. Hanging cloth used as a blind.

Verb

1. Arrange in a particular way; "drape a cloth".

2. Place casually; "The cat draped herself on the sofa".

3. Cover or dress loosely with cloth; "drape the statue with a sheet".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "drape" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1880. (references)

Personal Care & Hotels

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Drape

Clothing

Vest, clothe, array, dress, dight, drape, robe, enrobe, attire, apparel, accounter, rig, fit out; deck; (ornament); perk, equip, harness, caparison.

Crosswords: Drape

French (drapes), Sranan (there).

Books

• Drape, Shape, Decorate (reference)

• Interior Focus: Chair Dressing: Wrap, Drape and Decorate, 25 Ideas for Instant Style (reference)

• There's an Ape Behind the Drape (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

She walked to the line and began to drape pale blue jeans and blue shirts and long gray underwear over the wire

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

You will wear a hospital gown for the examination, and the lower part of your body will be covered with a sterile drape. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "drape": drape in ♦ drape oneself ♦ drape over ♦ drape round ♦ grand drape. Additional references.

Beginning with "drape": drape-over, drape-suits.

Albanian

varet (droop, fall, hang, hinge, lop), var (dangle, hang, hang up, hook, rope, string up, suspend), shtrij këmbët, shtrij (elongate, expand, hold out, push, reach, recline, roll, spread, spread on, stretch, unfold), perde (albugo, cataract, cloak, coulisse, curtain, curtains, drapery, mist, opacity, proscenium, purdah, screen, shroud, veil), mbuloj me perde. (various references)

Arabic 

‏كسا بالجوخ, ‏كسا (array, attire, cake, clothe, coat, cover, dress, encase, endue, equip, face, fur, garb, garment, gird, glaze, invest, overlay, panel, plate, rig out, robe, sheathe, spread, suit, turn out), ‏ستارة (blind, curtain, hanging, pelmet, rag), ‏علق الستارة, ‏جعل للثوب ثنيات, ‏ثنى (bend, deter, dissuade, flex, fold, folding, goffer, hire, inflect, lap, pat, pleat, pliable, praise, pucker, replicate, tribute, tuck). (various references)

Bulgarian 

завеса (curtain, drapery, veil), падам на дипли, драперия (drapery, fall, hangings, pelmet, swag), драпирам (swag). (various references)

Chinese 

装饰 (Adorn, Adorned, Adorning, Decking, decor, Decorate, Decorated, Decorating, Decoration, Decorative, decoratively, Draped, Emblazon, Emblazoned, Emblazoning, Emboss, Embossed, Embossing, fringed, Fringing, Garnish, garnished, Garnishing, latticed, Latticing, ornamental, ornamentally, Ornamented, Ornamenting). (various references)

Czech

pokrýt (cover, embower, encase, meet, overlay, paper, smother, spread), přikrýt (cap, cover). (various references)

Danish

spærregardin. (various references)

Dutch

draperen. (various references)

Esperanto

drapiri. (various references)

Farsi 

باپارچه پوشانیدن , باپارچه مزین کردن . (various references)

Finnish

verhoilla (do upholstering, upholster), poimuttaa (gather, pleat, tuck). (various references)

French

draper. (various references)

German

drapieren (cloak), schmücken (adorn, adornment, array, attire, bedeck, blazon, decorate, embellish, emblazon, gild, ornament, spangle, to adorn, to blazon, to decorate, to emblazon, to spangle, trim). (various references)

Greek 

κρεμώ (hang, loll, sling, suspend), κουρτίνα (curtain, drapery), σκεπάζω με ύφασμα, τυλίγω (close in on, coil, enfold, engulf, enshroud, envelop, furl, kink, roll up, wrap, wreathe). (various references)

Hebrew 

לתלות וילון, לכסות בארי�', וילון (blind, curtain). (various references)

Hungarian

szövet (cloth, fabric, stuff, textile, texture, tissue, weave, web, webbing, weft, woof), kárpit (tapestry). (various references)

Indonesian

menutupi (overrun). (various references)

Italian

drappo, drappeggiare, coprire (be covered, become overcast, cap, cover, cover oneself, deck, hold, lay down with, lay over, muffle, overgrow, overlay, overspread, screen, shroud, smother, suffuse, to cover, top, veil, whitewash, wrap up). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

ドル箱 (drain, drain cock, dress, dress shirt, dress suit, dress up, dressmaker, dressmaking, milch cow, patron). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ドレープ . (various references)

Manx

croghey (bank on, climb, cling, depend, fly, hang, hinge, hinge as story, hoist, jack up, lean on, loft, pendant, pitch, sheer, spring, suspension, swing), coamrey (apparel, clothe, clothes, clothing, costume, cover up, dress, dress up, dressing, fit, garment, habit, repair). (various references)

Norwegian

drapere. (various references)

Pig Latin

apedray.(various references)

Portuguese

drapeje, drapejar, revestir (braze, case, clothe, coat, encase, endue, enrobe, face, fit out, garnish, incase, indue, jacket, overlay, plaster, prank, revet, robe, trim, vesture), panejar (shiver), panejamento, guarnecerdearmação, cobrir (bescreen, blanket, case, clapboard, clothe, coat, come over, cope, cover, cover up, curtain, daub, deck, encase, enfold, face, fleece, incase, mantle, muffle, overgrow, overlay, overlie, overspread, pelt, putty, serve, shell, sow, spread, suffuse, to collect, to cover, top, wrap), armar (arm, assemble, hatch, man, pitch, set, show off, spur, strech). (various references)

Romanian

drapa (cover with cloth), decora (adorn, decorate, dress, garnish, ornament), împodobi (adorn, array, beautify, bedeck, caparison, deck, deck out, decorate, dress, embellish, encrust, feather, fig, fig out, fringe, garnish, gild, grace, hang with, ornament, pink, prank, robe, set, smarten up, trap, trim). (various references)

Russian 

портьера (portiere), драпировка (drapery, hangings), драпировать драпировка, драпировать. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

draperija (drapery), zavesa (curtain, drop curtain, pelmet, riddel, valance), staviti draperiju, ogrnuti (cover, mantle, throw on). (various references)

Spanish

vestir a (attire, garb), tapizar (paper, upholster), cubrir (bank, blanket, ceilings, cloak, coat, cover, do, fence, make up, mantas, mantle, Mount, overlay, overspread, plaster, screen, serve, sheet, strew, suffuse, travel, walk), cubierta (binder, casing, cover, covering, cowling, deck, housing, shoe, tire, topping), cortinas, cortina de salida, arreglar los pliegues de, adornar con pliegues de tela, adornar con colgaduras. (various references)

Swedish

drapera. (various references)

Turkish

dökümlü olmak, dökülmek (be poured, come off, course, disembogue, disgorge, empty, fall, fall into, fall into decay, fall off, fall out, feel cheap, flow, go to pieces, molder, moulder, Peel, peel off, pour, pour forth, pour out, rub off, run down, slop over, spill, teem, trail), sarkmak (bag, beetle, dangle, droop, flag, hang, hang down, hang out, impend, lean out, lie over, lop, overhang, prolapse, sag, slouch), kumaşla süslemek, kumaşla örtmek, kumaş (cloth, contexture, fabric, material, materials, stuff, woof), katlamak (bend, crease, Crimp, double, enfold, fold, fold down, fold down back, infold, pleat, shut, tuck, tuck up, turn back), kalın perde, kıvırmak (angle, bend, contort, Crimp, crisp, crook, curl, curl up, do successfully, enfold, entwine, entwist, fold, fold down, frill, frizz, frizzle, gauffer, goffer, gopher, handle, have a command of, inflect, intwine, manage, meander, squirm, squirm out of, tuck, tuck in, tuck up, turn back, turn down, twist, wind, wind up), asmak (bunk, drape over, gibbet, halter, hang, hang on, hang out, hang up, neglect, play hooky, post, post up, skip, skive off, sling, string up, suspend, swing, truss, wag). (various references)

Ukrainian

шпалерний матеріал, прикрашати тканинами, порть�"ра, драпірувати. (various references)

Vietnamese 

rèm (lattice), m� n (hanging, mosquito-curtain, mosquito-net). (various references)

circumfusa, circumfusum. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "drape": drapeabilities, drapeability, drapeable, draped, draper, draperies, drapers, drapery, drapes, drapey. (additional references)

Words ending with "drape": bedrape, undrape. (additional references)

Words containing "drape": bedraped, bedrapes, undraped, undrapes. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Drape" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dape, dapi, dapo, darpa, darpan, diape, Draba, drabe, drade, drae, draee, drafe, drage, drale, drame, drane, drap, Drapa, drapeau, drare, drate, drave, drawe, draye, dreap, drep, Dreye, Dreze, dripe, Orapa, Rrapo. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: padre, pared, raped.

-1 letter: aped, aper, dare, dear, pard, pare, pear, rape, read, reap.

-2 letters: ape, are, dap, ear, era, pad, par, pea, ped, per, rad, rap, red, rep.

-3 letters: ad, ae, ar, de, ed, er, pa, pe, re.

+1 letter: carped, craped, damper, dapper, depart, diaper, draped, draper, drapes, drapey, harped, padder, padres, paired, pander, parade, pardee, pardie, parged, parked, parled, parred, parsed, parted, pedlar, petard, prated, prayed, ramped, rapped, rasped, reaped, redcap, repaid, repand, spader, spared, spread, warped.

+2 letters: adapter, adepter, adopter, aproned, aspired, bedrape, capered, cramped, crapped, dampers, departs, deprave, despair, diapers, diptera, drapers, drapery, eardrop, ephedra, frapped, graphed, grasped, jeopard, leopard, operand, padders, paddler, padrone, panders, pandore, papered, paraded, parader, parades, parched, pardine, pardner, paroled, parried, partied, pearled, pedlars, pedlary, peracid, peridia, pervade, petards, phrased, pirated, pleader, praised, pranced, pranged, pranked, prawned, preaged, predate, predawn, predial, prefade, premade, prepaid, ralphed, raphide, rapider, readapt, readopt, redcaps, repaved, replead, respade, retaped, scarped, scraped, sharped, spaders, sparged, sparked, sparred, speared, sprayed, spreads, tapered, tramped, trapped, undrape, updater, upgrade, uprated, vapored, wrapped.