drape

Meaning

Noun

1. A curtain; a drapery.
2. The way in which fabric falls or hangs.
3. (US) A member of a youth subculture distinguished by its sharp dress, especially peg-leg pants (1950s: e.g. Baltimore, MD). Antonym: square.
4. A dress made from an entire piece of cloth, without having pieces cut away as in a fitted garment.

Verb

1. (transitive) To cover or adorn with drapery or folds of cloth, or as with drapery.
2. (transitive) To spread over, cover.
3. To rail at; to banter.
4. To make cloth.
5. To design drapery, arrange its folds, etc., as for hangings, costumes, statues, etc.
6. To hang or rest limply.

Synonyms

curtain

drapery

mantle

pall

cloak

clothe

robe

hang

bathe

mask

😷

pleat

fold

tuck

veil

set

engulf

ensconce

enshroud

envelop

festoon

flash

flood

furrow

grow over

incase

loll

nappe

obliterate

obscure

obstruct

occult

overgrow

paste

perch

portiere

ruffle

screen

settle

settle down

sheathe

shroud

sling

smother

strew

submerge

subside

white out

vesture

whiteout

blank out

Translations

drapieren

drappeggiare

cortina

draperen

cubrir

draperie

tapizar

κουρτίνα

κοσμώ με ύφασμα

reposteiro

cortina

tenture

cortina

cortina

Pronounced as (IPA)

/dɹeɪp/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: drape

Cognate with English: drub

Cognate with Northern Frisian: dreep

Cognate with Low German: drapen

Cognate with German: treffen

Cognate with Swedish: dräpa

In summary

From Middle English drape (“a drape”, noun), from Old French draper (“to drape; to full cloth”), from drap (“cloth, drabcloth”), from Late Latin drappus, drapus (“drabcloth, kerchief”), a word first recorded in the Capitularies of Charlemagne, probably from Frankish *drapi, *drāpi (“that which is fulled, drabcloth”, literally “that which is struck or for striking”), from Proto-Germanic *drapiz (“a strike, hit, blow”) and Proto-Germanic *drēpiz (“intended for striking, to be beaten”), both from *drepaną (“to beat, strike”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreb- (“to beat, crush, make or become thick”). Cognate with English drub (“to beat”), North Frisian dreep (“a blow”), Low German drapen, dräpen (“to strike”), German treffen (“to meet”), Swedish dräpa (“to slay”). More at drub.