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drapery

/ˈdɹeɪpəɹi/

drapery noun: cloth draped gracefully in folds.

Noun

drapery (countable and uncountable, plural draperies)

  1. (uncountable) Cloth draped gracefully in folds.
  2. (countable) A piece of cloth, hung vertically as a curtain; a drape.
    • The windows gleamed with light through the boughs—a small open space gave to view the left wing of the building—he could distinctly see the long range of illuminated apartments, figures moving to and fro, and the richly coloured fall of the draperies.1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVIII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 306
  3. The occupation of a draper; cloth-making, or dealing in cloth.
    • He made also statutes for the maintenance of drapery and the keeping of wools within the realm1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret...
  4. Cloth, or woollen materials in general.
    • people who ought to be weighing out grocery or measuring out drapery1859, Thomas Macaulay, The Life of William Pitt

drapery meaning in Tamil, Telugu and Kannada

drapery in Tamil

அறுவை வாணிகம, துணிமணி விற்பனைத் தொழில், ஆடையணிமணிச் சரக்கு, மடியாடை, தொங்கல் ஒப்பனை, திரைச்சீலை மடிப்புத்தொங்டகல்

drapery in Telugu

drapery
జవళి javaḷi

drapery in Kannada

ಜವಳಿ, ಅರಿವೆ

Examples of drapery in a sentence

  • The draperies did little to keep out the light; rather, they were mainly there as adornment for the windows.
  • Fustians were used for anything from draperies to dresses or upholstery to men’s waistcoats.
  • He is worth substantially more money if this filigree drapery is still intact.

All 19 example sentences with drapery

Forms of drapery

pluraldraperies

Plural of drapery: draperies

Origin of drapery

From Middle English draperie, from Old French draperie, from drap (“drape, sheet, large cloth”), ultimately of Germanic origin.

Words formed from drapery

Questions about drapery

What does drapery mean?
Drapery means cloth draped gracefully in folds.
What is drapery in Tamil?
Drapery in Tamil is அறுவை வாணிகம, துணிமணி விற்பனைத் தொழில், ஆடையணிமணிச் சரக்கு. See Drapery meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is drapery?
Drapery is a noun.
How do you pronounce drapery?
Drapery is pronounced /ˈdɹeɪpəɹi/.
What is the plural of drapery?
The plural of drapery is draperies.

Words near drapery in the dictionary

  1. Draperian
  2. draperied
  3. draperies
  4. drapers
  5. Draperstown
  6. drapery
  7. draperylike
  8. drapes
  9. drapes off
  10. drapest
  11. drapet

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: drapery (page history and authors); drapery (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); జవళి (Telugu) (page history and authors); drapery (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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