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• The draperies did little to keep out the light; rather, they were mainly there as adornment for the windows.From the entry adornment
• Fustians were used for anything from draperies to dresses or upholstery to men’s waistcoats.2007, Susan M. Ouellette, “Flax from the Field, Cotton from the Sea”, in US Textile Production in Historical Perspective: A Case Study…. From the entry fustian
• He is worth substantially more money if this filigree drapery is still intact.2005, John Kenneth Muir, An Analytical Guide to Television’s Battlestar Galactica, page 187. From the entry removable
• The weight of elderdom in our family was like a drapery to be taken for granted.2005, Hortense Calisher, Tattoo for a Slave. From the entry elderdom
• The woman and the pony were posed before velvet draperies which were fringed with deedlee-balls.1969 March 31, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five […] (A Seymour Lawrence Book), New York, N.Y.: Delacorte Press, →OCLC, page 35. From the entry deedlee ball
• The dancer wears a long, soft drapery, which is never lifted to her ankles.1907, Thomas Hayes, “Dances of the East”, in The English Illustrated Magazine, volume 36, page 104. From the entry bonelessness
• Then he crept up the stone stairs behind the drapery shop at the Co-op., and peeped in the reading-room.1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “chapter 5”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC. From the entry on the club
• A little piece of black drapery had been tacked above the frame to lend a dignity to woe.1905, E. M. Forster, Where Angels Fear to Tread, chapter 7, third paragraph. From the entry dignity
• These contrast with a well-found orange in Elizabeth's drapery.1902, House Beautiful - Volumes 11-12, page 37. From the entry well-found
• But there is a fundamental difference between Greek and Gothic sculpture, despite the very similar treatment of draperies and the human form.1963, Hans Weigert, “[Introduction]”, in Peter Gorge, transl., edited by Harald Busch and Bernd Lohse, Gothic Sculpture (European…. From the entry psychocentric
• She put her hand on the arm of her careworn, sallow father, and frothing her light draperies, proceeded over the eternal red carpet.1920, D. H. Lawrence, chapter 1, in Women in Love, New York: Barnes & Noble Classics, published 1996, page 14. From the entry sallow
• A beautiful, queer, dim, magiciany sort of place with Oriental rugs and draperies and cushions, and perfume in the air—incense, I think.1913 January, Maravene Kennedy Thompson, “Peggy and the Swami: Another Peggy Story”, in McClure’s Magazine, volume XL, number 3, New York…. From the entry magiciany
• An ale-house keeper would “with a grave air complain that trade was not sufficiently encouraged, when he meant the trade of ale drapery and smoking tobacco'.”2002, Richard Grassby, The Business Community of Seventeenth-Century England, page 226. From the entry ale-drapery
• I've rarely seen a sculptural object express contradictions so well: they're both human and antihuman, squat and vertical (because of the drapery folds), heavy and light.1999 February 19, Fred Camper, “Form Follows Dysfunction”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry antihuman
• The choice and treatment of the motifs which form the inner ornamental border - rams' heads and drapery - suggest a Northern goldsmith familiar with the early auricular style.1971 January, Hugh MacAndrew, “A Silver Basin Designed by [Bernardo] Strozzi”, in The Burlington Magazine, volume 113, number 814…. From the entry auricular style
• With two such catchpoles as Henry and Uncle Fred at his heels there was nothing left for Grandpa Piper but to sign his abdication to the drapery business.1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 247. From the entry catchpole
• The black-robed, scissored girls of the drapery store at the next angle of the place were finishing their tenth hour of vigil over goods displayed on the footpath.1913, Arnold Bennett, chapter 3, in Paris Nights and Other Impressions of Places and People, New York: George H. Doran. From the entry scissored
• For all who cross his palm with silver he condescends to lift the drapery that hides the reclining figure, and the larger the coin the longer the look.1910 October 12, “Pay to See Barney Statue: Hindu Butler Reaping a Harvest from Washington's Curious Folk”, in New York Times, retrieved…. From the entry cross someone's palm
• The hand which is not concealed by the drapery is gloveless; the arms are bare considerably above the elbow; and a bracelet encircles the right wrist.1900, William Carew Hazlitt, The Venetian Republic: Its Rise, Its Growth, and Its Fall 421-1797. From the entry considerably

Meaning of drapery

1. noun Cloth draped gracefully in folds.
2. noun A piece of cloth, hung vertically as a curtain; a drape.
3. noun The occupation of a draper; cloth-making, or dealing in cloth.

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How do you use drapery in a sentence?

Drapery is used as a noun. For example: “The draperies did little to keep out the light; rather, they were mainly there as adornment for the windows.”

What is a short sentence with drapery?

“These contrast with a well-found orange in Elizabeth's drapery.”

What does drapery mean?

Drapery means cloth draped gracefully in folds.