bedrape
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[edit]bedrape (third-person singular simple present bedrapes, present participle bedraping, simple past and past participle bedraped)
- (archaic) To dress, clothe.
- 1910, Grace MacGowan Cooke, The Power and the Glory[1]:
- 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."
- 1913, Perceval Gibbon, The Second Class Passenger[2]:
- Shift and bedeck and bedrape her as they might, she was yet the Burdock; her lights would run down the Channel with no new consciousness in their stare, and there was work and peril for men aboard of her as of old.
- To drape, cover or adorn with drapery or folds of cloth, or as with drapery.
- 1886, Gordon Stables, chapter 3, in The Cruise of the Land Yacht “Wanderer”[3], London: Hodder & Stoughton, page 24:
- 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!
- 1899 April, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number MII, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part III (Conclusion):
- I had to wait in a lofty drawing-room with three long windows from floor to ceiling that were like three luminous and bedraped columns.