drape

drape
drape [drāp]
vt.
draped, draping [ME drapen, to weave into cloth, drape < OFr draper < drap: see DRAB1]
1. to cover, hang, or decorate with or as with cloth or clothes in loose folds
2. to arrange (a garment, cloth, etc.) artistically in folds or hangings
vi.
to hang or fall in folds, as a garment, cloth, etc.
n.
[Fr drap, cloth]
1.
a) cloth hanging in loose folds, or hanging loosely from the thing that it covers [a surgical drape]
b) a heavy curtain that hangs in loose folds; esp., either of a pair of such curtains
2. the manner in which cloth hangs or is cut to hang, as in a garment

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