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.
In the midst is a well where women in flowing drapery, with tall jars, draw water as if posing for Bible illustrations; and a camel market in which fifty or more of the brown, ungainly beasts have been relieved of their burdens and lain down for the night – doubled into uncomfortable heaps and bubbling and moaning with querulous discontent. In Seven Stages: A Flying Trip Around the World
A drapery scarf is sometimes added to this dress, of white barege, with the ends in stripes of gold across, and finished by a splendid and gossamer-like fringe of white silk.
The carving of this late-gothic International Style is especially noteworthy for figures that often appear to have no feet and are supported by their elaborate drapery — here especially beautifully carved. Beautiful Mourning
Bartolommeo learned from the younger artist the rules of perspective, in which he was so skilled, while Raphael owes to the _frate_ the improvement in his colouring and handling of drapery, which was noticeable in the works he produced after their meeting. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"
Botany had lavished there its most elegant drapery of ferns of all kinds, snap-dragons with their violet mouths and golden pistils, the blue anchusa, the brown lichens, so that the old worn stones seemed mere accessories peeping out at intervals from this fresh growth. The Village Rector
We had only robed ourselves in looser drapery, when a violent ringing at the bell startled us; we listened, and heard the voice of M. d'Arblay, and Jerry answering, 'They're gone to bed.' Juniper Hall: A Rendezvous of Certain Illustrious Personages during the French Revolution, Including Alexandre D'Arblay and Fanny Burney
Ellen Barfoot in her bath-chair on the esplanade was a prisoner -- civilization's prisoner -- all the bars of her cage falling across the esplanade on sunny days when the town hall, the drapery stores, the swimming-bath, and the memorial hall striped the ground with shadow. Jacob's Room
Wrap tassel drapery cords around the pillow and tie them to the chair.
We can detect a loosening of the brush in some of Garofalo's other paintings, notably in the drapery and visually resonant landscape of the Suxena Altarpiece.
One plant had wreathed itself round a statue of Vertumnus, which was thus quite veiled and shrouded in a drapery of hanging foliage, so happily arranged that it might have served a sculptor for a study.
/catafalco/, whilst from ceiling to floor the walls were hung with black drapery. The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Volume 5
While other sculptors made use of clinging drapery, they rarely did so with naturalistic consistency.
The change of the arrangement of the hair from the sensuously spilling curls of the Venus to the modest chignon of a Diana produces the same fateful tension embodied in the simultaneously modest and revealing drapery.
The next morning Rastignac woke late and stayed in bed, giving himself up to one of those matutinal reveries in the course of which a young man glides like a sylph under many a silken, or cashmere, or cotton drapery. Study of a Woman
Instead of this, we either put on a stock with a sham tie, (now all _sham_ things, of what kind soever, militate against good taste,) or else, to make the most of our scarf, we fill up the aperture of the waistcoat with an ambitious quantity of drapery, and we stick therein an enormous and obtrusively ostentatious pin. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845
On the right are some vertical oblongs that suggest large, loose drapery (something to easily pull back for a full view) and hint at the presence of a human figure.
They struck grayest and ghostliest on a high balcony, where a woman's figure crouched, swathed in damp, trailing drapery, with silky, falling hair about a still face, and steadfast eyes that had burned just as steadfastly through the long hours gone by. The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
The woman, it appears, had not only been jilted by the drapery assistant but he had also ‘circulated a scandalous report about her’.
The artist also parallels the columnar folds of Peace's drapery and the regular fluting of the columns behind her.
The very strangeness of the fable set forth perhaps engaged the child's fancy; or the benignant mildness of the countenances, so unlike the eager individual faces of the earlier artist; for he returned again and again to gaze unweariedly on the inhabitants of that tranquil grassy world, studying every inch of the walls and with much awe and fruitless speculation deciphering on the hem of a floating drapery the inscription: Bernardinus Lovinus pinxit. The Valley of Decision
The white tontongee still girdled her loins; but Coomba's climate was her mantuamaker, and indicated more necessity for ornament than drapery. Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver
They depict the Madonna and Child, saints, and angels painted in a strong, black outline style, with the details of drapery and facial features shaded in yellow and red earth colours.
Wrap tassel drapery cords around the pillow and tie them to the chair.
Manet even kept the screen and drapery of Boucher's painting, but transposed them from right to left, as in a mirror image.
Because he was diseased with a consumption, Evan Roberts in his thirtieth year left over being a drapery assistant and had himself hired as a milk roundsman. My Neighbors Stories of the Welsh People
A sheer, a see-through or sheer fabric usually used as an inner drapery, gives a softening effect to window treatment.
The woman, it appears, had not only been jilted by the drapery assistant but he had also ‘circulated a scandalous report about her’.
Folded drapery is placed across the bust and over her shoulder. Draped Bust Dollar, Small Eagle, 1795-1798 : Coin Guide
I love you, Mother Proudfoot," she said, all mixed in silver drapery. THE LIVES OF CHRISTOPHER CHANT
He discovers that donning the dusty drapery magically transforms him into a genuine vampire.
This gave his figure a kind of bareness and bleakness which made the accident of meeting it in memory or in apprehension a peculiar concussion; it was deficient in the social drapery commonly muffling, in an overcivilized age, the sharpness of human contacts. The Portrait of a Lady
Her left arm lies strangely inert on her thigh, her fingers determinedly gripping her own drapery, while her right arm is raised, the barely carved hand seeming to stroke John's face.
Other times, the professional eavesdropper subconsciously shields himself with wire fences, translucent plastic sheeting, and window drapery to deflect prying questions.
Be sure to attach to a drapery holdback that is secured to the wall.
Their long, graceful drapery was as white as snow; and each wore loosely, beneath the rounded bosom, a dark-blue zone, or bandelet, studded, like the skies at midnight, with little silver stars. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 265, July 21, 1827
The drapery is one of the best understood among the modern works, but much inferior to the aforementioned antiques.
A smile touched his lips as he recalled how bored and frustrated he was with her drapery samples, carpet swatches, and catalogs of furniture and linens.
First to appear onstage, in front of the eponymous crimson drapery, is Nate Newton as Hieronymus the Host, a largely mute M.C. who's dressed like an organ-grinder's monkey, with red sequined suspenders and a too-small red sequined top hat. Theater review: 'Blood Sweat & Fears III: The Red Velvet Curtain'
She threw on the black silk scarf, whose simple drapery suited as well her shape as its dark hue set off the purity of her dress and the fairness of her face.
In this mortal frame of mine which is made of a hundred bones and nine orfices there is something, and this something is called a wind-swept spirit for lack of a better name, for it is much like a thin drapery that is torn and swept away at the slightest stir of the wind. And What of the Haiku? : Kwame Dawes : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
The strings of the harp held by the furthest angel on the left were picked out in gold against the dark blue drapery of his sleeve, as were the bells on his companion's tambourine.
Vintage jewelry can be used as beautiful drapery tie-backs and they make stunning additions to wrapped presents.
Brun, the Swiss observed, that it was un beau morceau, and Mr. Pallet replied, — “Yes, yes, one may see with half an eye, that it can be the production of no other; for Bomorso’s style both in colouring and drapery, is altogether peculiar: then his design is tame, and his expression antic and unnatural. The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
Jabach is known to have retouched drawings in his collection, and Viatte suggests that all the drapery studies have suffered this fate.
The drapery is Greek, with one trifling variation, -- the fastening of the dress is shown upon the right shoulder. The New England Magazine Volume 1, No. 6, June, 1886, Bay State Monthly Volume 4, No. 6, June, 1886
Their clothing, or rather drapery, is a mystery, for it covers and drapes perfectly, yet has no make, far less fit, and leaves every graceful movement unimpeded. The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither
The great heavy drooping firs stretched their arms, clothed in festoons of dark green drapery, over the sheeted earth. Stuart of Dunleath: A Story of Modern Times
The valance is the fringes or drapery hanging round the tester of a bed.] [Footnote II. 55: _Com'st thou to beard me_] To _beard_ anciently meant to set _at defiance_. Hamlet
The flag should not be used as a drapery, or for covering a speakers desk, draping a platform, or for any decoration in general.
A view from her right, though hard to obtain, would reveal how the flowing drapery had reinforced her pointing gesture, which originally directed the viewer's attention toward the altar.
Most manufacturers make it possible to mix and match poles, drapery rings, decorative finials and holdbacks in a variety of finishes - from white and ebony to antique gold, brass and copper.
Yes, for she looked; the frame was only some native reeds or canes and a bit of board; the rest was white muslin drapery, which would pack away in a very few square inches of room, but now hung in pretty folds around the glass and covered the frame. The Old Helmet
The folds of the drapery, the fall of the curtains, had been arranged and rearranged, by Adolph and Rosa, with that nicety of eye which characterizes their race.
_Ball Dresses_ of light materials are most in vogue, and are generally made of two and three skirts; as white _tulle_, with three skirts, trimmed all round with a broad, open-worked satin ribbon; the third skirt being raised on one side, and attached with a large bouquet of flowers, whilst the ribbon is twisted, and ascends to the side of the waist, where it finishes; the same kind of flowers serves to ornament the sleeves and centre of the corsage, which is also trimmed with a deep drapery of _tulle_. The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851
In office buildings, the major sources of formaldehyde are likely to be particle board, fiberboard and plywood in furniture and paneling; glues; and upholstery and drapery fabrics.
The sculptural solidity of the forms, the sharply creased drapery folds, and morphological details of hair, eyes and extremities are all characteristic of the youthful Bronzino.
By an unfaltering truth, approach thy grave like one that wraps the drapery of his couch, about him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
He wore a breastplate and leg armour, as well as the expensive, linen drapery around his body.
Carrara marble inlaid with verd-antique, in a kind of damask pattern; over the pulpit it fell like drapery, so easy, so graceful, so exquisitely imitated, that I was obliged to touch it to assure myself of the material. The Diary of an Ennuyée
A smile touched his lips as he recalled how bored and frustrated he was with her drapery samples, carpet swatches, and catalogs of furniture and linens.
[2.2] A valance is a short piece of drapery that extends across the window to conceal the support rods. Inventory of Robert Carter's Estate, November [1733]
She asks how the accomplished writer approached the less familiar task of curating an exhibition that explored the drama of drapery from the early Renaissance.
The stage is stripped of drapery, and lighting battens at various heights form a sloped canopy overhead.
_catafalco_, whilst from ceiling to floor the walls were hung with black drapery. The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete Lourdes, Rome and Paris
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.
All drapery carried out in this stitch is worked in somewhat the same fashion, that is, the couching running to and fro between the lines marks each fold as roughly shown at fig. 131. Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving
The wigs, drapery and costuming were a form of escape in which he lovingly (and chastely) colluded. Times, Sunday Times
Lightening, is a master of fooling, his business as the salesman in Miffin's drapery emporium being exceedingly funny.
Her clothing was a loose flowing drapery, which fell from her shoulders to her heels, while instead of agility of motion or sprightliness there was nothing but a dreamy gliding, a kind of somnambulistic movement, apparently without plan or purpose, but not without a certain grace. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878
As Vivaldi expressed his incredulity, however, he returned to examine the garment once more, when, as he raised it, he observed, what had before escaped his notice, black drapery mingled with the heap beneath; and, on lifting this also on the point of his sword, he perceived part of the habiliment of a monk! The Italian
The small shopkeepers were continually exposed to visits and demands of provisions, drapery, or whatever they sold; and the same hands that set fire to the houses of the rich, and tore up the vines of the cultivator, broke the looms of the weaver, and stole the tools of the artizan. Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs
Luminette® Modern Draperies Dual Panel, a unique combination of drapery and sheer fabrics on one operating headrail, was also named one of 408 finalists. Paramus Post
The flying off and curling of the drapery by the wind serves as an equipoise to balance the projection of the Triton's elbow.
Top treatments can run the gamut from elaborate swags to a simple piece of fabric tossed casually across a wooden drapery pole.
She gave herself time to adore the drapery, with its changes of meteoric lucence, before she rose and took it. Fennel and Rue
The slightly gauche figure-drawing adds to the carvings' fey allure, but their chief trait is an obsession with describing drapery and water in very low relief through swathes of sinuously convoluted line.
Terry devised a novel ‘triple drapery’ of three sheer fabrics - in shades of chartreuse, amber, and amethyst - attached by rings to sculpted wrought-iron rods.
The hardware for such drapery is difficult to manage, especially those terrible drapery hooks. Archive 2007-01-01
In office buildings, the major sources of formaldehyde are likely to be particle board, fiberboard and plywood in furniture and paneling; glues; and upholstery and drapery fabrics.
She felt that she had spoken as impressively as it was necessary to do, and that in using the superior word "militate" she had thrown a noble drapery over a mass of particulars which were still evident enough. Middlemarch: a study of provincial life (1900)
Her subjects are usually depicted with faraway Botticelli eyes and zaftig physiques, placed amid quasi-Platonic iconographic schemes and classical-looking drapery.
Among the terracottas found there, were Buddha heads, torsos of bodies and pieces of drapery belongings to Buddha figures of monks and laymen and women profusely decorated.
The pie list swelled; the richer puddings had vanished; the sausage, with his drapery wrapped about him, barely lingered in a pleasant thanatopsis with the buckwheats and the sweet but doomed maple. The Four Million
Stalactites hung down like stone drapery from the arched ceiling far above; an occasional drop of limewater fell from their tapering ends. Conan Of The Isles
That movie is in aramean, all part of it are based on very old original relique of scriptures, also the part where the wife of the governor order a jewish woman to weep off the blood of Christ with precious drapery for her, it is part of the annal an darchive about what we have of historical documents for what happened. Robert De Niro Joining Mel Gibson in Edge of Darkness « FirstShowing.net
They sometimes lay carelessly about the house, and whenever she saw the tall chimney of his sash-and-blind factory looming above the blank date-line she always looked for a female in Greek drapery seated on a cogged wheel at the base of it. Under the Skylights
Mention should also be made of the exhibit of N.J. Nayrolles, who displays a portiere which is an exact reproduction of one executed for the president of the French Republic; the curtains of M. Waré; the linen drapery and robe de chambre of antique velvet and old Colbert lace of Mme. Franck; infants 'wardrobes of Mme. Susse; the embroideries of Mme. Leroudier; the bonnets of Mme. Esther Mayer and M. Auguste Petit; the corsets and petticoats of Art and Handicraft in the Woman's Building of the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893
It was fashioned from a lunch box, camera, opera glass parts, pie servers, springs, gooseneck lamp part, drapery rod finial, clock key, and tin cups.
Choosing their own fabric rather than buying a ready-made drapery also enables homeowners to make coordinating cushions or to cover a chair with the same material.
But raising the right arm instead of the left or veiling a nude figure with drapery were not the only ways of taking possession of another's image or object.
Down a long hallway flanked by pattered fabric is another blue room, this one with a cobalt blue couch, drapery and a mural. Blues Make SoHo Owner Happy
Now when he bought some coloured print and a Boer sunbonnet, and some shifts and stockings of a traveller in drapery and hosiery, and ordered her thenceforwards to see that the girl went properly clothed, a new terror, a fresh torture, was added to the young life. The Dop Doctor
chryselephantine;" that is, composed of ivory and gold; the parts representing flesh being of ivory laid on a core of wood or stone, while the drapery and other ornaments were of gold. The Age of Fable
The drapery which thus hangs down is dignified by the name of a "valance," and though originally intended for the purpose of embellishment and ornamentation, it is better that decorative art should be more limited in its application, so as not to interfere with the free circulation of air throughout the room. The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken
Notwithstanding its elevated temperature, it is difficult to believe that the air can dissolve the quantity of water exhaled from the surface of the soil, the foliage of the trees, and their trunks: the latter are covered with a drapery of orchideae, peperomia, and other succulent plants. Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
The part which may be called a petticoat — though the word is a slur upon the graceful drapery — is short, and shows the finely turned ankles, high insteps, and small feet. The Golden Chersonese and the way thither
PERUGINO (_Pietro_): known by his narrow, contracted figures and scrimpy drapery (1446-1524). Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3
The lower part of her mantle cascades in regular folds, but the hem represents a noticeable display of wind blown drapery.
It is dressed with classicizing drapery, rather that contemporary costume, to convey a sense of timeless quality.
The Swedish Interactive Institute has also been developing products around this idea with their Design for Increased Energy Awareness collection, which includes the widely blogged Re: Form Energy Curtain, a drapery that stores and emits solar power in woven photovoltaic textiles. GREEN BUILDING 101: DESIGN INNOVATION | Inhabitat
The rhetorical quality of gesture and patterns of drapery are influenced by ancient sculpture.
This approach to drapery was at odds with the spectrum of mainstream contemporary sculpture as practiced by both its most and least innovative exponents.
The set designed by Rosas consisted of gauzy drapery of brilliant yellow hung in scallops across the center stage, while a somber gray archway loomed behind it upstage center.
But the perfection of this statue consists principally in its drapery, for it is totally clothed.
In office buildings, the major sources of formaldehyde are likely to be particle board, fiberboard and plywood in furniture and paneling; glues; and upholstery and drapery fabrics.
Her waist, tight-cinctured, was -- which is the highest praise -- not ultra-fashionable, and the undulations of her gauzy drapery disclosed, as she receded, enough of ankle and crural adjacency to furnish hints of improvement to most classical sculptors. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875
There is armour, an insect-like carapace; and there is drapery, a second, looser skin.
the drapery served organically to cover the Madonna
In his analysis of drapery, what Boselli valued above all was the clarity with which the drapery conveyed the body beneath it and the ability of well-designed drapery to enhance the figure's pose or action.
There is armour, an insect-like carapace; and there is drapery, a second, looser skin.
It was fashioned from a lunch box, camera, opera glass parts, pie servers, springs, gooseneck lamp part, drapery rod finial, clock key, and tin cups.
Within Duquesnoy's circle, the well-established association between Greek sculpture and the nude seems to have held clear implications for the rendering of drapery.
The chairs don't make me squirm, the napery and drapery are the only aspects that sparkle or dazzle and the lighting obscures the scars of my years of debauchery.
The artist also parallels the columnar folds of Peace's drapery and the regular fluting of the columns behind her.
This gave his figure a kind of bareness and bleakness which made the accident of meeting it in ones meditations always a sort of shock; it was deficient in the social drapery which muffles the sharpness of human contact. Chapter XLVII
Not until the stallion, sinking, emerged again by means of the powerful beat of his legs and hoofs, did Graham realize that it was a woman who rode him — a woman as white as the white silken slip of a bathing suit that molded to her form like a marble-carven veiling of drapery. CHAPTER IX
Many of the large drapery shops have closed and instead a large number of boutiques have opened offering specialised merchandise.
Under the axle - tree hung, like drapery, a huge chain, worthy of some Goliath of a convict.
That movie is in aramean, all part of it are based on very old original relique of scriptures, also the part where the wife of the governor order a jewish woman to weep off the blood of Christ with precious drapery for her, it is part of the annal an darchive about what we have of historical documents for what happened. Robert De Niro Joining Mel Gibson in Edge of Darkness « FirstShowing.net
Most manufacturers make it possible to mix and match poles, drapery rings, decorative finials and holdbacks in a variety of finishes - from white and ebony to antique gold, brass and copper.
The lower part of her mantle cascades in regular folds, but the hem represents a noticeable display of wind blown drapery.

How To Use Drapery In A Sentence

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