Craped vs Draped - What's the difference?
craped | draped |
(crape) To form into ringlets; to curl; to crimp.
Crepe.
Mourning garments, especially an armband or hatband.
To form into ringlets; to curl or crimp.
(drape)
(UK) A curtain, a drapery.
The way in which fabric falls or hangs.
(US) See drapes.
(US) A youth subculture distinguished by its sharp dress, especially peg-leg pants (1950s: e.g. Baltimore, MD). Antonym: square
* Time.com: MANNERS & MORALS: The Drapes [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,856482,00.html]
To cover or adorn with drapery or folds of cloth, or as with drapery; as, to drape a bust, a building, etc.
* De Quincey
* Bungay
To .
To make cloth.
To design drapery, arrange its folds, etc., as for hangings, costumes, statues, etc.
To hang or rest ly
To spread over, cover.
As verbs the difference between craped and draped
is that craped is past tense of crape To form into ringlets; to curl; to crimp while draped is past tense of drape.craped
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* *crape
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(crap)- a machine for craping silk
- The hour for curling and craping the hair. — Madame d'Arblay.
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* ----draped
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*drape
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(drap)- The whole people were draped professionally.
- These starry blossoms, pure and white, / Soft falling, falling, through the night, / Have draped the woods and mere.
