| 释义 |
drap·ery
I. \ˈdrāp(ə)rē, -ri\ noun
(-es)
Etymology: Middle English draperie (also, manufacture of cloth, dealing in cloth), from Middle French, from Old French, from drap cloth + -erie -ery — more at drab (cloth)
1. Britain : dry goods
2. Britain : the occupation of a draper
3. : a piece of material (as cloth, lace, or plastic) used for decorative purposes and usually hung in loose folds arranged in a graceful design: as
a. : clothing or a piece of cloth arranged in graceful folds and worn or represented in art as worn on the human body
b. : curtain 1a; especially : a curtain of heavy fabric often used over sheer curtains
c. : loose coverings for furniture; also : an arrangement of cloth for use in interior decoration especially as a wall covering : hangings
4. : something that serves to cover, adorn, or conceal
< facts buried under the draperies of his turgid prose >
5. : the draping or arranging of materials or their representation
< great skill in drapery >
II. transitive verb
(-ed/-ing/-es)
: to furnish or adorn with or as if with drapery — used chiefly as a past participle
< she was draperied in soft flowing velvet > |