drape

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the manner in which fabric hangs or falls

   They adjusted the drape of their garment.

2. 2
   verb

   arrange in a particular way

   Drape a cloth.

3. 3
   verb

   cover or dress loosely with cloth

   Drape the statue with a sheet.

From Middle English drape (“a drape”, noun), from Old French draper (“to drape; 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 striking”), from Proto-Germanic *drapiz (“a strike, hit, blow”) and Proto-Germanic *drēpiz (“intended for striking, to be beaten”), both from *drepaną (“to beat, strike”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreb- (“to beat, crush, make or become thick...

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