Fabric vs Drapery - What's the difference?
fabric | drapery |
(archaic) structure, building
* Milton
(archaic) The act of constructing; construction; fabrication.
* Milman
(archaic) The structure of anything; the manner in which the parts of a thing are united; workmanship; texture; make.
The framework underlying a structure
A material made of fibers, a textile or cloth.
(petrology) The appearance of crystalline grains in a rock
(computing) Interconnected nodes that look like a textile 'fabric' when viewed collectively from a distance
(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.
Cloth, or woollen materials in general.
* Macaulay
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)- Anon out of the earth a fabric huge / Rose like an exhalation.
- Tithe was received by the bishop for the fabric of the churches for the poor.
- cloth of a beautiful fabric
- the fabric of our lives
- the fabric of the universe
- cotton fabric
- The internet is a fabric of computers connected by routers
Synonyms
* See alsoSee also
*drapery
English
(wikipedia drapery)Noun
- (Francis Bacon)
- people who ought to be weighing out grocery or measuring out drapery