drapery

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Long, heavy cloth hung in folds, especially as a curtain.

   Thick velvet drapery covered the tall windows.

2. 2
   noun

   Cloth arranged gracefully in loose folds.

   The statue's robe was carved to look like soft, flowing drapery.

Simplified etymology

Drapery entered English in the late Middle Ages and ultimately derives from Latin drappus, “cloth.” It belongs to the same historical family as draper, drab, and trappings.

From Middle English draperie, from Old French draperie, from drap (“drape, sheet, large cloth”), ultimately of Germanic origin.

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