noun
Meaning 1
Cloth draped gracefully in folds.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
drapery
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈdɹeɪpəɹi/
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noun
Meaning 2
A piece of cloth, hung vertically as a curtain; a drape.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
The occupation of a draper; cloth-making, or dealing in cloth.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
Cloth, or woollen materials in general.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Meaning relationships
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: curtain, drape, mantle, pall
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: blind, screen, furnishing
Narrower terms: drop curtain, drop cloth, drop, festoon, frontal, portiere, shower curtain, theater curtain, theatre curtain
noun
Meaning 6
cloth gracefully draped and arranged in loose folds
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: fabric, cloth, material, textile
History
Etymology
From Middle English draperie, from Old French draperie, from drap (“drape, sheet, large cloth”), ultimately of Germanic origin.
Across languages
Translations
20 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: драперия (draperija) — uncountable: cloth draped gracefully in folds
- Esperanto: drapiraĵo — uncountable: cloth draped gracefully in folds
- Finnish: drapeeraus — uncountable: cloth draped gracefully in folds
- Portuguese: drapeado — uncountable: cloth draped gracefully in folds
- Ottoman Turkish: چوقه (çoka, çuka) — uncountable: cloth draped gracefully in folds
- Catalan: cortina — countable: a piece of cloth, hung vertically as a curtain
- Esperanto: kurteno — countable: a piece of cloth, hung vertically as a curtain
- Esperanto: drapiraĵo — countable: a piece of cloth, hung vertically as a curtain
- Finnish: verho — countable: a piece of cloth, hung vertically as a curtain
- French: rideau — countable: a piece of cloth, hung vertically as a curtain
- Galician: cortina — countable: a piece of cloth, hung vertically as a curtain
- German: Vorhang — countable: a piece of cloth, hung vertically as a curtain
- Italian: tenda — countable: a piece of cloth, hung vertically as a curtain
- Plautdietsch: Väahank — countable: a piece of cloth, hung vertically as a curtain
- Portuguese: cortina — countable: a piece of cloth, hung vertically as a curtain
- Romanian: draperie — countable: a piece of cloth, hung vertically as a curtain
- Romanian: perdea — countable: a piece of cloth, hung vertically as a curtain
- Spanish: cortina — countable: a piece of cloth, hung vertically as a curtain
- Swedish: draperi — countable: a piece of cloth, hung vertically as a curtain
- Irish: éadaitheoireacht — the occupation of a draper