Définition/Signification de drape

• English - Noun: drape ( plural drapes ) ( UK ) A curtain , a drapery . ( textiles ) 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 Translations References ^ http://onlinedictionary.datasegment.com/word/drabcloth ^ Skeat, An Etymological Dictionary of the English…
• English - Verb: drape ( third-person singular simple present drapes , present participle draping , simple past and past participle draped ) To cover or adorn with drapery or folds of cloth , or as with drapery; as , to drape a bust , a building , etc . De Quincey The whole people were draped professionally . Bungay These starry blossoms , pure and white , / Soft falling , falling , through the night , / Have…
• English - Pronunciation: Rhymes: -eɪp
• English - Etymology: From Middle English drape ( noun , “ a drape ” ), from Old French draper ( “ to drape", also , "to full cloth ” ), from drap ( “ cloth , drabcloth ” ), from Late Latin drappus , drapus ( “ drabcloth , kerchief ” ), a word first recorded in the Capitularies of Charlemagne , probably from Frankish * drapi, *drāpi ( “ that which is fulled , drabcloth ” , literally “ that which is struck or for…
• English - Anagrams: dreap padre , Padre pared raped