Drave vs Drape - What's the difference?
drave | drape |
(archaic) (drive)
* 1888 , Rudyard Kipling, ‘At Howli Thana’, Black and White , Folio Society 2005, p. 387:
(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 a proper noun drave
is .As a noun drape is
a drop (globule of liquid ).drave
English
Verb
(head)- I do not know its name, but the Sahib sat in the midst of three silver wheels that made no creaking, and drave them with his legs, prancing like a bean-fed horse—thus.
Anagrams
*drape
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Noun
(en noun)References
Verb
(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.