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drape

[dreyp] verb, draped, drap⋅ing, noun
–verb (used with object)
1. to cover or hang with cloth or other fabric, esp. in graceful folds; adorn with drapery.
2. to adjust (curtains, clothes, etc.) into graceful folds, attractive lines, etc.
3. to arrange, hang, or let fall carelessly: Don't drape your feet over the chair!
4. Medicine/Medical, Surgery. to place cloth so as to surround (a part to be examined, treated, or operated upon).
5. (in reinforced-concrete construction) to hang (reinforcement) in a certain form between two points before pouring the concrete.
6. to put a black cravat on (a flagstaff) as a token of mourning.
–verb (used without object)
7. to hang, fall, or become arranged in folds, as drapery: This silk drapes well.
–noun
8. a curtain or hanging of heavy fabric and usually considerable length, esp. either of a pair for covering a window and drawn open and shut horizontally.
9. either of a pair of similar curtains extending or draped at the sides of a window, French doors, or the like as decoration.
10. manner or style of hanging: the drape of a skirt.

Origin:
1400–50; late ME < MF draper, deriv. of drap cloth (see drab 1 )


drap⋅a⋅ble, drape⋅a⋅ble, adjective
drap⋅a⋅bil⋅i⋅ty, drape⋅a⋅bil⋅i⋅ty, noun
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drape   (drāp)   
v.   draped, drap·ing, drapes

v.   tr.
  1. To cover, dress, or hang with or as if with cloth in loose folds: draped the coffin with a flag; a robe that draped her figure. See Synonyms at clothe.

  2. To arrange or let fall in loose folds: draping the banner from the balcony.

  3. To hang or rest limply: draped my legs over the chair.

v.   intr.
To fall or hang in loose folds: arranged the cloth to drape over the table legs.
n.  
  1. A drapery; a curtain.

  2. A cloth arranged over a patient's body during a medical examination or treatment or during surgery, designed to provide a sterile field around the area being examined or treated or around the operative incision.

  3. The way in which cloth falls or hangs: adjusted the drape of the gown.


[Middle English drapen, to weave, from Old French draper, from drap, cloth, from Late Latin drappus.]
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Word Origin & History

drape 
1362 (implied in draper), from O.Fr. draper, from drap "cloth," from L.L. drapus, of Gaulish origin (cf. O.Ir. drapih "mantle, garment"). Jive talk slang for "suit of clothes" is attested from 1945. The v. originally meant "to weave cloth;" modern sense of "to cover with drapery" is first attested 1847. Drapery in the sense of "stuff with which anything is draped" is from 1686.
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: 1drape
Pronunciation: 'drAp
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Forms: draped; drap·ing
: to shroud orenclose with surgical drapes

Main Entry: 2drape
Function: noun
: a sterile covering used in an operating room —usually used in plural
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Medical Dictionary

drape (drāp)
v. draped, drap·ing, drapes
To cover, dress, or hang with or as if with cloth in loose folds. n.
A cloth arranged over a patient's body during an examination or treatment or during surgery, designed to provide a sterile field around the area.

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