draped

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draped - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Drape \Drape\ (dr[=a]p), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Draped; p. pr. &
     vb. n. Draping.] [F. draper, fr. drap cloth. See 3d
     Drab.]
     1. To cover or adorn with drapery or folds of cloth, or as
        with drapery; as, to drape a bust, a building, etc.
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              The whole people were draped professionally. --De
                                                    Quincey.
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              These starry blossoms, [of the snow] pure and white,
              Soft falling, falling, through the night,
              Have draped the woods and mere.       --Bungay.
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     2. To rail at; to banter. [Obs.] --Sir W. Temple.
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  draped \draped\ adj.
     1. covered with or as if with clothes or a wrap or cloak; as,
        a beam draped with cobwebs. Contrasted with uncovered.
  
     Syn: cloaked, clothed, mantled, wrapped.
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     2. curtained; -- of windows; as, velvet-draped windows.
        Opposite of curtainless.
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draped - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  draped
      adj 1: covered with or as if with clothes or a wrap or cloak;
             "leaf-clothed trees"; "fog-cloaked meadows"; "a beam
             draped with cobwebs"; "cloud-wrapped peaks" [syn:
             cloaked, clothed, draped, mantled, wrapped]
      2: covered in folds of cloth; "velvet-draped windows"