[ US /ˈdɹeɪpɝi/ ]
[ UK /dɹˈe‍ɪpəɹi/ ]
NOUN
  1. cloth gracefully draped and arranged in loose folds
  2. hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window)
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How To Use drapery In A Sentence

  • Her right hand shields her pubic area, while her left arm is raised at the elbow and her left hand holds a piece of drapery that falls onto an amphora.
  • It is in typical ‘Kentian’ style, with the cornice supported on scrolled brackets flanking a frieze with swags and a central mask, the jambs being carved as female terms with classical drapery.
  • Her parents had been milliners in Clapham, just down the road, and had run a millinery and drapery shop.
  • I looked fine, wore my grey grapery with my drapery, and spread myself out as much as possible. Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910
  • The highly unusual drapery of the bronze statue in Milan is, we believe, fashioned in direct reference to this legend, tying the statue to this originary image.
  • A critical taste might have objected that the plush curtains which shaded the windows were too heavy for summer; that the begilded wallpaper "swore" a little at its own dado and frieze, as well as deadened the effect of the pictures which hung against it; and that the drapery of lace and velvet which veiled the fireplace made a fire inconvenient and almost impossible, however cold the weather might be. A Little Country Girl
  • There flows a ruddier light through the blood-colored panes, and the blackness of the sable drapery appalls.
  • In Dang, elaborate folds of drapery and heads of big hair, viewed from behind, are the predominant motifs.
  • With a flat band of silver olive leaves about her brow, and the soft hair waving out below, nothing more was necessary for a costume save a brief drapery of silver spangled cloth with a strap of jewels and a wisp of black malines for a scarf. The City of Fire
  • Braque revived the Western idea of the female nude, also the drapery depicted is another traditional element.
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