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bedrapes

bedrapes is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 bedrapes

What is bedrapes the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Bedrapes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of bedrape.

Words near bedrapes in the dictionary

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

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