Drape vs Clothe - What's the difference?
drape | clothe |
(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
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.
To adorn or cover with clothing; to dress; to supply clothes or clothing.
* Shakespeare
* Bible, Proverbs xxiii. 21
* Goldsmith
(figurative) To cover or invest, as if with a garment.
* Watts
* J. Dyer
* Milton
As a noun drape
is a drop (globule of liquid ).As a verb clothe is
to adorn or cover with clothing; to dress; to supply clothes or clothing.drape
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Noun
(en noun)References
Verb
(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.
Anagrams
* * * * ----clothe
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Verb
- to feed and clothe''' a family; to '''clothe oneself extravagantly
- Go with me, to clothe you as becomes you.
- Drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
- The naked every day he clad , / When he put on his clothes.
- to clothe somebody with authority or power
- language in which they can clothe their thoughts
- His sides are clothed with waving wood.
- words clothed in reason's garb