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Drapes vs Drapery - What's the difference?

drapes | drapery |

As nouns the difference between drapes and drapery

is that drapes is heavy cloth hung over a window while drapery is cloth draped gracefully in folds.

As a verb drapes

is third-person singular of drape.

drapes

English

Noun

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

    • Synonyms

    * curtains

    Verb

    (head)
  • (drape)

    • Anagrams

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    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