Drapes vs Draped - What's the difference?
drapes | draped |
(plurale tantum) Heavy cloth hung over a window.
(drape)
(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 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
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* curtainsVerb
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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.
