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Drapey vs Drapery - What's the difference?

drapey | drapery |

As an adjective drapey

is tending to form drape-like folds.

As a noun drapery is

(uncountable) cloth draped gracefully in folds.

drapey

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Tending to form drape-like folds.
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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