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Definition: Drapery |
DraperyNoun1. Hanging cloth used as a blind. 2. Cloth gracefully draped and arranged in loose folds. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "drapery" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
Etymology: Drapery \Dra"per*y\, noun; plural Draperies. [French expression draperie.]. (references) |
Synonyms: DraperySynonyms: curtain (n), drape (n), mantle (n), pall (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Clothing | Noun: clothing, investment; covering; dress, raiment, drapery, costume, attire, guise, toilet, toilette, trim; habiliment; vesture, vestment; garment, garb, palliament, apparel, wardrobe, wearing apparel, clothes, things; underclothes. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Drapery |
| English words defined with "drapery": Draperied, Draperies ♦ lay figure ♦ Mantling ♦ organically ♦ undrape, undraped. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "drapery": carder, blankets, curtain drier, curtain framer, curtain stretcher ♦ DRAPERY OPERATOR, drapery worker, DRAPERY-ROD ASSEMBLER ♦ ENGRAVER, PICTURE ♦ Lay Figures, l-tacker ♦ package provision, PLEATER, PREPLEATER ♦ stretcher operator, STRETCHER-DRIER OPERATOR. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "drapery": Draperied. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Wallpaper design number fifty three, by Messrs. Virchaux & Co. Border for number fifty two. A drapery supported by a crescent, the sides folding around a rosette, a garland of vine leaves thrown over the drapery. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Elliott, Taylor, Woolfenden, carpet and drapery, Detroit, Mich. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Outdoor dance performance with dancers in classical drapery, possibly in Long Island. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Clipping from an article on photography, including a photograph by Arnold Genthe entitled Study of black drapery. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Scarves by Vera, business at 417 5th Ave. Drapery wall. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Drapery" by Julia Eisenberg Commentary: "Drapery." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Delivery and installation costs are included in the fabric drapery price. (references) | |
Drapery distributors usually have 4-6 branch stores in Mexico City located in the most important shopping areas. (references) | ||
With regard to the drapery segment, most foreign fabric manufacturers as well as local fabric drapery manufacturers have wholesale distributors. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Drapery" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Drapery" is used about 67 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 67 | 40,952 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "drapery": auroral drapery ♦ drapery fabric ♦ drapery leg ♦ grand drapery border ♦ linen drapery. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "drapery": drapery-folds. | |
Ending with "drapery": linen-drapery. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
drapery | 1,525 | pinch pleated drapery | 20 |
drapery fabric | 391 | drapery sunshine | 19 |
drapery hardware | 306 | custom made drapery | 18 |
drapery rod | 215 | kirsch drapery hardware | 18 |
custom drapery | 128 | drapery material | 17 |
drapery and curtain | 124 | kirsch drapery rod | 16 |
drapery pattern | 81 | pinch pleat drapery | 16 |
window drapery | 66 | motorized drapery | 15 |
altar drapery | 62 | drapery panel | 15 |
discount drapery | 50 | thermal drapery | 15 |
drapery design | 50 | drapery and sheers | 14 |
drapery idea | 38 | velvet drapery | 13 |
discount drapery fabric | 25 | designer drapery | 13 |
drapery making | 25 | drapery fabric wholesale | 13 |
drapery supply | 24 | drapery cleaning | 13 |
drapery made ready | 23 | drapery lining | 13 |
drapery hook | 23 | drapery sewing | 13 |
silk drapery | 22 | window treatment drapery | 13 |
drapery ring | 21 | commercial drapery | 12 |
drapery style | 21 | bay window drapery | 12 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "drapery"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | tregti tekstilesh, tekstile, stof (cloth, coating, fabric, material), perde (albugo, cataract, cloak, coulisse, curtain, curtains, drape, mist, opacity, proscenium, purdah, screen, shroud, veil), pëlhurë (caddis, cloth, fabric, web, weft), cohë (cloth, fabric, material). (various references) | |
Arabic | تجارة الأجواخ, ستارة من جوخ, ألبسة جاهزة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | текстилни стоки, магазин за текстилни стоки, завеса (curtain, drape, veil), перде (cataract, curtain, mist, veil, walleye), драперия (drape, fall, hangings, pelmet, swag). (various references) | |
Chinese | 帳帘 . (various references) | |
Czech | textil (dry goods), obchod s textilem. (various references) | |
Danish | lydisolerende gardin (acoustic curtain, sound-resistant drapery), linnedvarer (linen drapery, linen goods), hvidevarer (linen drapery, linen goods). (various references) | |
Dutch | linnengoed (linen, linen drapery, linen goods), geluidisolerend gordijn (acoustic curtain, sound-resistant drapery), geluiddempend gordijn (acoustic curtain, sound-resistant drapery). (various references) | |
Farsi | پارچه فروشی , پارچه بافی , ماهوت فروشی , تزءینات پرده ای . (various references) | |
Finnish | melua eristävä verho (acoustic curtain, sound-resistant drapery). (various references) | |
French | draperie, tentures (drapes), étoffes (dry goods). (various references) | |
German | Drapierung (cloaking, drape, draping). (various references) | |
Greek | κουρτίνα (curtain, drape), ύφασμα με πτυχέσ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | וילונות (hangings, velum). (various references) | |
Hungarian | sötétítőfüggöny (drapes). (various references) | |
Italian | drappeggio, drappeggi, tessuti, commercio in stoffe. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 衣紋 (clothes, dress), 段物 (cloth, dry goods, fabric, lively type of shamisen song, measure of kimono material, musicalpiece in several acts, piece goods, textiles, type of koto solo), 反物 (cloth, dry goods, fabric, measure of kimono material, piece goods, textiles), 幔幕 (curtain). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | たんもの (cloth, dry goods, fabric, measure of kimono material, piece goods, textiles), まんまく (curtain), えもん (clothes, dress). (various references) | |
Manx | shapp eaddee (draper's shop), eaddagh (cloth, clothing, dress, fabric, material). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aperydray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | tapeçaria (arras, tapestry, upholstery, woolwork), roupagem, cortina (blind, purdah, rag). (various references) | |
Romanian | draperie (Arras, curtain, hanging, hangings, portiere), produse de manufacturã, postãvãrie, manufacturã (manufactory, textiles), magazin de manufacturã. (various references) | |
Russian | магазин тканей, драпировка;штора, драпировка (drape, hangings). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | draperija (drape). (various references) | |
Spanish | pañería. (various references) | |
Swedish | manufakturvaror (dry goods). (various references) | |
Turkish | döşemelik kumaş (soft furnishings, upholstery), perdelik kumaş (chintz), kumaşçılık, kıvrımlar halinde duran kumaş. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | мануфактура (manufactory), завіса (butt, cloud, curtain, hinge, veil). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | vải vóc nghề bán vải, nghề bán đồ vải quần áo xếp nếp, màn... trong điêu khắc, màn rủ xếp nếp. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Drapery" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Damery, Daraprim, Draperie, Drapier, Durgapur. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "drapery" (pronounced drā"perē) |
| 4 | -ā" p er ē | papery. |
| 3 | -p er ē | coppery, slippery. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-p-r-r-y" | |
-1 letter: draper, drapey, dreary, parred, prayed, prayer. | |
-2 letters: apery, darer, deary, deray, derry, drape, drear, dryer, padre, pardy, pared, parer, parry, payed, payer, perdy, perry, pryer, raped, raper, rared, rayed, ready, redry, repay, yarer. | |
-3 letters: aery, aped, aper, dare, dear, dray, dyer, eyra, pard, pare, parr, pear, pray, prey, pyre, rape, rare, read, reap. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-p-r-r-y" | |
+2 letters: hyperarid, portrayed, predatory, resprayed. | |
+3 letters: cardplayer, copyreader, perdurably, prebendary, preparedly, presidiary. | |
+4 letters: cardplayers, copyreaders, deprecatory, depredatory, predicatory, swordplayer. | |
+5 letters: depreciatory, hydrographer, hydrotherapy, hypercharged, procedurally, radiotherapy, swordplayers. | |
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