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Drapery vs Curtains - What's the difference?

drapery | curtains |

As nouns the difference between drapery and curtains

is that drapery is (uncountable) cloth draped gracefully in folds while curtains is .

As a verb curtains is

(curtain).

drapery

English

(wikipedia drapery)

Noun

  • (uncountable) Cloth draped gracefully in folds.
  • (countable) A piece of cloth, hung vertically as a curtain; a drape.
  • The occupation of a draper; cloth-making, or dealing in cloth.
    • (Francis Bacon)
  • Cloth, or woollen materials in general.
  • * Macaulay
    • people who ought to be weighing out grocery or measuring out drapery

    curtains

    English

    Noun

    (head)
  • (figuratively, in reference to curtains closing at the end of a stage show) An end, death
    • It's curtains for you!
    "What if a bunch of scuba divers nosed about here?''" / "''Curtains for them, when our sees them. "

    Verb

    (head)
  • (curtain)