Drupe vs Drape - What's the difference?
drupe | drape |
A stone fruit.
* 1969 , Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor , Penguin 2011, p. 71:
(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 nouns the difference between drupe and drape
is that drupe is a stone fruit while drape is a curtain, a drapery.As a verb drape is
to cover or adorn with drapery or folds of cloth, or as with drapery; as, to drape a bust, a building, etc.drupe
English
(wikipedia drupe)Noun
(en noun)- Her bare foot slipped, and the two panting youngsters tangled ignominiously among the branches, in a shower of drupes and leaves, clutching at each other [...].
Derived terms
* drupeletAnagrams
* ----drape
English
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.