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Drapes vs Draped - What's the difference?

drapes | draped |

As verbs the difference between drapes and draped

is that drapes is third-person singular of drape while draped is past tense of drape.

As a noun drapes

is heavy cloth hung over a window.

drapes

English

Noun

(head)
  • (plurale tantum) Heavy cloth hung over a window.
  • Synonyms

    * curtains

    Verb

    (head)
  • (drape)
  • Anagrams

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    draped

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (drape)
  • Anagrams

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    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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