The drape of fabric or material is the way it looks the shape it takes when it's hanging. If you're sewing a dress, you need to use fabric with the right sort of drape.
To cover or adorn with drapery or folds of cloth, or as with drapery;
Noun
hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window)
Noun
a sterile covering arranged over a patient''s body during a medical examination or during surgery in order to reduce the possibility of contamination
Noun
the manner in which fabric hangs or falls; "she adjusted the drape of her skirt"
Verb
arrange in a particular way; "drape a cloth"
Verb
place casually; "The cat draped herself on the sofa"
Verb
cover or dress loosely with cloth; "drape the statue with a sheet"
v. t.
To cover or adorn with drapery or folds of cloth, or as
with drapery; as, to drape a bust, a building, etc.
v. t.
To rail at; to banter.
v. i.
To make cloth.
v. i.
To design drapery, arrange its folds, etc., as for
hangings, costumes, statues, etc.
Drape
The whole people were draped professionally.
These starry blossoms, [of the snow] pure and white, Soft falling, falling, through the night, Have draped the woods and mere.2.
Drape
To cover or adorn with drapery or folds of cloth, or as with drapery;
To make cloth.
Usage Examples
Take pleasure in your dreams relish your principles and drape your purest feelings on the heart of a precious lover.
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Other Usage ExamplesIdealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.
I've got a real sense of three-dimensional geometry. I can look at a flat piece of fabric and know that if I put a slit in it and make some fabric travel around a square, then when you lift it up it will drape in a certain way, and I can feel how that will happen.