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English Dictionary: draped by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
draped
adj
  1. covered with or as if with clothes or a wrap or cloak; "leaf-clothed trees"; "fog-cloaked meadows"; "a beam draped with cobwebs"; "cloud-wrapped peaks"
    Synonym(s): cloaked, clothed, draped, mantled, wrapped
  2. covered in folds of cloth; "velvet-draped windows"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Drape \Drape\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Draped}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Draping}.] [F. draper, fr. drap cloth. See 3d {Drab}.]
      1. To cover or adorn with drapery or folds of cloth, or as
            with drapery; as, to drape a bust, a building, etc.
  
                     The whole people were draped professionally. --De
                                                                              Quincey.
  
                     These starry blossoms, [of the snow] pure and white,
                     Soft falling, falling, through the night, Have
                     draped the woods and mere.                  --Bungay.
  
      2. To rail at; to banter. [Obs.] --Sir W. Temple.
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