drape Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window)
    curtain; pall; drapery; mantle.
  2. noun the manner in which fabric hangs or falls
    • she adjusted the drape of her skirt
  3. noun a sterile covering arranged over a patient's body during a medical examination or during surgery in order to reduce the possibility of contamination
  4. verb arrange in a particular way
    • drape a cloth
  5. verb place casually
    • The cat draped herself on the sofa
  6. verb cover as if with clothing
    robe; cloak; clothe.
    • the mountain was clothed in tropical trees
  7. verb cover or dress loosely with cloth
    • drape the statue with a sheet

WordNet

Drape transitive verb
Etymology
F. draper, fr. drap cloth. See 3d Drab.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Draped ; present participle & verbal noun Draping
Definitions
  1. To cover or adorn with drapery or folds of cloth, or as with drapery; as, to drape a bust, a building, etc.
    The whole people were draped professionally. De Quincey.
    These starry blossoms, [of the snow] pure and white, Soft falling, falling, through the night, Have draped the woods and mere. Bungay.
  2. To rail at; to banter. Obs. Sir W. Temple.
Drape intransitive verb
Definitions
  1. To make cloth. Obs. Bacon.
  2. To design drapery, arrange its folds, etc., as for hangings, costumes, statues, etc.

Webster 1913