drapen.1
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a. Cloth, drapery.
b. Draping.
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the world > space > relative position > folding or folded condition > [noun] > arrangement of cloth in folds
draping1883
drape1889
1665 J. Wilson Projectors 271 My new drape.
1757 J. Dyer Fleece iii. 8 Each glossy cloth, and drape of mantle warm.
1889 Pall Mall Gaz. 27 Feb. 4/3 A dress..of pale blue velvet, with long flowing drape of white tulle.
c. plural. Curtains. Chiefly North American.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > covers or hangings > [noun] > hangings > curtain
curtainc1320
riddelc1380
saya1382
serge1382
veilinga1398
traverse1400
veil1567
purdah1621
scene1638
drapes1908
1895 Montgomery Ward Catal. Spring & Summer 13/1 Drapery Silk... Suitable for throws, sash curtains, mantel drapes, etc.]
1908 Sears, Roebuck Catal. No. 117. 885/2 A strong, well made Nottingham Lace Curtain,..one of the most stylish and attractive drapes one could possibly desire for the parlor window.
1934 J. T. Farrell Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan (1936) ii. xviii. 373 He looked at a rose-green pottery lamp set on the table near the heavy blue velvet drapes.
1936 J. G. Cozzens Men & Brethren i. 117 The long drapes drawn together across the front windows.
1952 W. Granville Dict. Theatr. Terms 65 Drapes, curtains of velvet or fabric used in place of scenery in revues or in repertory productions in ‘Little’ theatres.
1962 Listener 2 Aug. 191/1 In America..they [sc. Venetian blinds] are frequently used with unlined ‘drapes’ (at the side of the window only).
1968 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 17 Feb. 49/4 (advt.) Drapes for sunroom and house.
1970 New Scientist 7 May 269/1 The cost of moving (including items such as legal fees, new drapes, etc) is £500.
d. A suit of clothes. slang (originally U.S.). Also attributive, as drape suit, a suit consisting of a long jacket and narrow trousers.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > set or suit of clothes > [noun]
habita1420
standc1450
suitc1475
sluch1582
standard1631
rig-out1824
outfit1840
suiting1863
shape1886
rig-up1896
bag of fruit1924
ensemble1927
whistle and flute1931
vine1932
drape1945
1945 L. Shelly Hepcats Jive Talk Dict. 9/2 Drape, suit.
1951 Sunday Pictorial 29 Oct. If a guy is ‘gear’, as they call a smart boy, he will dress in a single~breasted..drape jacket.
1952 A. Wilson Hemlock & After iii. i. 201 An endless horizon of drape suits.
1957 M. Swan Brit. Guiana i. viii. 133 He was a..man of thirty-two, wearing gaberdine drapes and a bow-tie.
1958 E. Hyams Taking it Easy 238 Street-corner youths whose drape-suits and sideburns were evolving into a pastiche of Edwardian fashion.
1969 Listener 10 July 58/3 They wore drape-jackets with velvet cuffs and their brothel-creepers were in immaculate condition.
e. drape forming (see quot. 1964). So drape technique, etc.
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society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with rubber or plastic > [noun] > moulding plastics
preforming1931
injection moulding1932
compression moulding1940
transfer moulding1940
slush moulding1943
postforming1945
vacuum forming1946
drape forming1958
thermoforming1958
1958 Times Rev. Industry Aug. 57/2 Machine for thermo-forming heavy industrial parts..uses drape..techniques.
1964 J. A. Wordingham & P. Reboul Dict. Plastics 56 Drape forming (drape vacuum forming), a method of shaping a thermoplastic sheet material in which the sheet is clamped into a frame, heated and a male mould pushed into the sheet to give positive mechanical stretching. Intimate contact is obtained by applying a vacuum.
Draft additions 1993
e. Surgery. A sterilized covering used in surgery.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > other surgical equipment > [noun] > covering or gown
gown1900
drape1950
1950 D. B. Kirby Surg. of Cataract v. 89/2 The use of sterile instruments, drapes..dressings and so forth—all have helped greatly in the elimination of infection in cataract surgery.
1973 Surg. Team Jan.–Feb. 29/1 When you shake the drapes..you increase the chances of wound infection.
1976 J. Archer Not Penny More xii. 141 He put a towel clip on each corner to secure them safely and then placed the laparotomy drapes over the prepared site.
1982 G. Spaeth Ophthalmic Surg. ii. 18/2 Place three sterile drapes under the patient's head.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
drapen.2adj.
local.
A. n.2
A sheep or cow culled or drafted from the flock or herd to be fatted off for slaughter; esp. a cow or ewe whose milk is dried up or that has missed being with young. Used in north and north east of England.
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1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Brebis de rebut, an old or diseased sheepe thats not worth keeping..a drape or culling.
1674 J. Ray N. Countrey Words in Coll. Eng. Words 15 A Drape, a farrow cow, or cow whose milk is dried up.
1788 W. Marshall Rural Econ. Yorks. II. 194 Dry cows—provincially, ‘drapes’.
1855 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Yorks. Words 49 Drape, a dry or milkless cow.
1885 Standard 2 May 6/4 Smaller beasts..drapes.
B. adj.
or in combinations, as drape cow, drape ewe, drape sheep.
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1673 J. Ray N. Countrey Words in Coll. Eng. Words 15 Drape-Sheep, oves rejiculæ.
1851 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 12 ii. 333 The drape-ewes (or crones) are..sold at Michaelmas.
1888 Whitby Gaz. 25 Feb. 4/7 The animal was a drape cow, about 9 years old.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2020).
drapev.1
/dreɪp/, U.S. /dreɪp/ΘΚΠ
the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [verb (transitive)] > weave
biwevec1300
drape1436
draper1436
weave1538
indrape1622
woof1894
1436 Libel of Eng. Pol. in Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 162 Spayneshe wolle in Fflaundres draped [v.r. draperd] is.
1436 Libel of Eng. Pol. in Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 162 By drapinge [v.r. drapryng] of oure wolle in substaunce Lyvene here comons.
a1657 J. Balfour Hist. Wks. (1824) II. 97 All the wooll that was not drapped and made vsse off within the kingdome.
1683 Britanniæ Speculum 18 Flanders doth drape Cloth for thee of thine own Wool.
2. To cover with, or as with, cloth or drapery; to hang, dress, or adorn with drapery.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > [verb (transitive)] > cover with
drape1847
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > cover [verb (transitive)] > with cloth or textile
clothec1369
pallc1440
clout1579
drapery1824
cloth1844
drape1847
bedrape1865
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > covers or hangings > [verb (transitive)] > cover or furnish with hangings
tapetc1369
hang1451
estale1508
tapestrya1640
drapery1824
overhang1834
drape1847
slip-cover1886
1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess v. 97 Like some sweet sculpture draped from head to foot.
1848 E. Bulwer-Lytton Harold I. i. i. 12 The walls were draped with silken hangings.
1853 C. Brontë Villette II. xxiv. 190 She stood, not dressed, but draped in pale antique folds.
1882 M. E. Braddon Mt. Royal III. vi. 146 A red gown draped with old Spanish lace.
3. To arrange or adjust (clothing, hangings, etc.) in graceful or artistic folds. Also intransitive for reflexive.
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the world > space > relative position > folding or folded condition > fold [verb (reflexive)] > hang in folds
drape1862
the world > space > relative position > folding or folded condition > fold [verb (intransitive)] > hang in folds
flakec1500
wimple1590
drape1894
1862 Macmillan's Mag. Apr. 523 Light material that will fall around and drape itself about the figure.
1894 ‘A. St. Aubyn’ Orchard Damerel II. ii. 59 The curtains would not ‘drape’ artistically.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > rebuke or reproof > rebuke or reprove [verb (transitive)] > severely
dressc1405
wipe1523
to take up1530
whip1530
to shake upa1556
trounce1607
castigatea1616
lasha1616
objurgate1616
thunderstrike1638
snub1672
drape1683
cut1737
rowa1798
score1812
to dress down1823
to pitch into ——1823
wig1829
to row (a person) up1838
to catch or get Jesse1839
slate1840
drop1853
to drop (down) to or on (to)1859
to give (a person) rats1862
to jump upon1868
to give (a person) fits1871
to give it to someone (pretty) stiff1880
lambaste1886
ruck1899
bollock1901
bawl1903
scrub1911
burn1914
to hang, draw, and quarter1930
to tear a strip off1940
to tear (someone) off a strip1940
brass1943
rocket1948
bitch1952
tee1955
fan-
1683 W. Temple Mem. in Wks. (1731) I. 449 Draping us for spending him so much Money, and doing nothing.
5. To place (oneself) against or on an object or another person, esp. in drunken unsteadiness. colloquial.
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the world > space > relative position > posture > action of leaning on or against something > lean [verb (reflexive)]
leanc1220
wrethea1225
lengc1450
to lean upon1813
drape1943
1943 J. L. Hunt & A. G. Pringle Service Slang 28 Draped, the worse for drink—hanging on to lamp-posts or one's friend, i.e. draped around anything available.
1958 E. Dundy Dud Avocado i. i. 29 The lamp-post against which I was limply draped.
1959 Punch 9 Dec. 559/1 Paul Drake comes in and drapes himself across the arm of an over-stuffed chair.
1960 Times 4 Mar. 8/1 He..draped himself round a Belisha Beacon in a thoroughly drunken fashion.
Derivatives
draped adj.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [adjective]
boundc1175
clothedc1220
bitighta1250
i-boenc1275
yclothed1297
ydight1297
clada1300
bitoughtc1314
ycladc1330
attireda1375
yhabited1377
gleda1450
buskedc1450
vested (also vest) and seized1464
besee?a1513
yschrowd1513
vestured1523
arrayed1525
braldc1571
garbed1599
habilimented1607
riggeda1640
dressed1641
put-ona1784
habited1807
swathed1815
draped1833
turned-out1833
caparisoned1841
enclad1863
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [adjective] > having specific parts > ornamented or trimmed > pleated or folded
rodded1562
wimpled1599
fulled1816
draped1833
folded1833
box-pleated1863
kilted1896
swathed1896
sunray-pleated1897
knife-pleated1905
permanently pleated1938
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > [adjective] > covered > with or as with (specific) textile
clouted1579
palleda1729
listed1827
draped1833
blanketed1835
silked1837
black-draped1845
baized1882
rugged1888
1833 H. Ellis Elgin Marbles II. i. 9 Draped figures.
1897 N.E.D. at Drape Mod. Is the skirt plain or draped?
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b. spec. in Surgery. To cover (a patient, operating table, etc.) with a drape or drapes.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > other surgical practices > perform other surgical practices [verb (transitive)] > cover patient or table with drape
drape1916
1916 Parker & Breckinridge Surg. & Gynecol. Nursing xxvii. 355 The legs are then draped with the sheet.
1939 Wiener & Alvis Surg. Eye iv. 42 The patient is then draped so as to leave only the eye exposed.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
drapev.2
northern dialect.
transitive. To cull, to draft.
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a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 76 When the worst of the flocke are drawne out, the Shepheards call this drapinge out of sheepe, and some drape out a score..by reason of theire age.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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