Drape vs Behang - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between drape and behang

is that drape is to cover or adorn with drapery or folds of cloth, or as with drapery; as, to drape a bust, a building, etc while behang is to hang round or about; depend; suspend; drape.

As a noun drape

is a curtain, a drapery.

drape

English

Noun

(en noun)

(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

References

* Time.com: MANNERS & MORALS: The Drapes [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,856482,00.html]

Verb

(drap)

To cover or adorn with drapery or folds of cloth, or as with drapery; as, to drape a bust, a building, etc.

* De Quincey

The whole people were draped professionally.

* Bungay

These starry blossoms, pure and white, / Soft falling, falling, through the night, / Have draped the woods and mere.

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.

Anagrams

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behang

English

Verb

(ambitransitive) To hang round or about; depend; suspend; drape.

*1824 , Richard Johnson, The renowned history of the seven champions of Christendom :

Now seven times had frosty-bearded Winter covered both herbs and flowers with snow, and behung the trees with crystal icicles, since the unfortunate St. George beheld the cheerful light of heaven, but lived obscure in a dismal dungeon, [...]

*1890 , Robert Herrick, William Carew Hazlitt, Hesperides :

And with rich clusters (hid among The leaves) her temples I behung : [...]

To ornament; embellish.

* 1874 , Plutarch, John Dryden, Arthur Hugh Clough, Plutarch's lives :

Moreover, when they have introduced the bride, they spread a fleece under her; and she, having brought in with her a distaff and a spindle, all behangs her husband's door with woollen yarn?

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