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Fabric vs Drapery - What's the difference?

fabric | drapery |

As nouns the difference between fabric and drapery

is that fabric is structure, building while drapery is cloth draped gracefully in folds.

fabric

English

Alternative forms

* fabrick (obsolete)

Noun

(wikipedia fabric)
  • (archaic) structure, building
  • * Milton
  • Anon out of the earth a fabric huge / Rose like an exhalation.
  • (archaic) The act of constructing; construction; fabrication.
  • * Milman
  • Tithe was received by the bishop for the fabric of the churches for the poor.
  • (archaic) The structure of anything; the manner in which the parts of a thing are united; workmanship; texture; make.
  • cloth of a beautiful fabric
  • The framework underlying a structure
  • the fabric of our lives
    the fabric of the universe
  • A material made of fibers, a textile or cloth.
  • cotton fabric
  • (petrology) The appearance of crystalline grains in a rock
  • (computing) Interconnected nodes that look like a textile 'fabric' when viewed collectively from a distance
  • The internet is a fabric of computers connected by routers

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    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