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bedraped

bedraped is the simple past and past participle of bedrape.

Meaning of bedrape

Verb

bedrape (third-person singular simple present bedrapes, present participle bedraping, simple past and past participle bedraped)

  1. (archaic) To dress, clothe.
    • We moderns bedeck and bedrape us in all sorts of meretricious togas, till a pair of fine eyes and a dashing manner pass for beauty; but when life tries the metal--when nature applies her inevitable test--the degenerate or neurotic type goes to the wall."1910, Grace MacGowan Cooke, The Power and the Glory
  2. To drape, cover or adorn with drapery or folds of cloth, or as with drapery.
    • The pink and white may, the clumps of lilac, the leafy hedgerows, the verandahs bedraped with mauve wistaria […]—it was all a sight, I can assure you!1886, Gordon Stables, chapter 3, in The Cruise of the Land Yacht “Wanderer”, London: Hodder & Stoughton, page 24

Questions about bedraped

What is bedraped the simple past and past participle of?
Bedraped is the simple past and past participle of bedrape.

Words near bedraped in the dictionary

  1. bedrails
  2. bedral
  3. bedrals
  4. bedrank
  5. bedrape
  6. bedraped
  7. bedraperied
  8. bedrapes
  9. bedraping
  10. bedraw
  11. bedrawing

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