draped
English
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]draped (comparative more draped, superlative most draped)
- Covered by or clothed in cloth that drapes loosely around the object or body.
- 1822, S. Prowett, “The Works of Antonio Canova”, in The Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, page 793:
- The Venus Victrix is more draped than we expected from the subject, for the Princess Borghèse lay for it, as all the scandalous Chronicles have repeated a dozen times, in a state of nudity— certainly not consistent with the notions of female decency entertained in our climate.
- 1969, Evan Senior, Music and Musicians - Volume 18, page 17:
- He was followed (literally) by a troupe of very draped ladies, exactly the score of 'love-sick maidens', led by an imperious Lady Jane.
- 2017, Carol L. Lawton, Votive Reliefs:
- The hero, of whom only part of the nude torso and draped lower body is preserved, reclines toward the right on a draped kline.
- Having curtains or drapery (often of a specified type)
- 1997, John Bentley Mays, Power in the Blood: Land, Memory, and a Southern Family, page 91:
- And for the newly mobilized, vacationing multitudes after the Second World War, there were the "Colonial" pilgrimages, which allowed lowly folk to step inside the very draped and chandeliered rooms where our Betters had lived out their Elegant and Traditional Colonial Lives.
- 2007, Karla J. Nielson, Interior Textiles: Fabrics, Application, and Historic Style, page 168:
- Valances, swags, or cornices may be installed over draped walls to enhance the impression of a window treatment.
- 2015, Rainer Rey, The Find:
- As Marilyn led them down the hallway, Lorna glanced into the partially draped rooms.
- (fashion, of clothing) Loosely fitted, with softly hanging fabric.
- 1957, Mabel Deane Erwin, Clothing for Moderns, page 166:
- Double-breasted coats, swagger coats, bias, very draped, and very pleated skirts require more cloth than straight cuts and hence cost more.
- 2007, Nirupama Pundir, Fashion Technology: Today and Tomorrow, page 139:
- See the high cowl but here wider and very draped .
- 2014, Linda Przybyszewski, The Lost Art of Dress: The Women Who Once Made America Stylish, page 1977:
- More complicated designs, draped and otherwise, require their wearer to move in a certain way.
- (more generally) Hanging loosely.
- 2013, James H. Jackson, Race:
- They lay side by side, limbs draped, energy exhausted.
- 2014, Dorothy E. Groszhans, Ecuadorothy, page 88:
- Completing the picture are some heavily draped power lines, a few meandering chickens and, looking completely incongruous, a dry docked, large and sleek, modern motor boat.
- 2015, Helen Lederer, Losing It: From the Star of Celebrity Big Brother 2017, page 75:
- He just looked very draped, like a section of curtain supplicated over his crazy paving.
- (figurative) surrounding or surrounded.
- 2012, Dane Boggs, Reiki Awakening: A Spiritual Journey, page 82:
- Her energy is very draped. She is covering and caring for many that she loves and supports. The draping will extend as she moves forward on her path.
- 2017, Patrick Ramponi, “Nietzshe's Meteoropathy”, in Sarah Fekadu, Hanna Straß-Senol, Tobias Döring, editor, REAL, page 145:
- His comprehensive correspondence with the musician Heinrich Köselitz (pseudonym Peter Gast) for example reads like a single repository of meteorological lamentations and complaints about the daily weather: Nietzsche feels "very draped and hidden" again and again, incapable of any productivity, because the climate strikes him as an “absurd disorder" (eKGWB/BVN- 1888,1049 - letter from 20.06.1888 ).
Derived terms
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[edit]draped
- simple past and past participle of drape