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Definition of Draperies
1. drapery [n] - See also: drapery
Lexicographical Neighbors of Draperies
Literary usage of Draperies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Merchant of Venice: A Comedy by William Shakespeare, David Belasco (1922)
"From R. corner diagonally up- Stage to a point RC on same line, draperies, forming
Wall. Across Stage at Back, about on line of Second Entrance, ..."
2. Godey's Magazine by Louis Antoine Godey, Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1852)
"Beneath this are suspended the draperies, which arc usually festooned with a ...
These draperies are sometimes of damask, etc., witk Ince curtains beneath ..."
3. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"The nude was not employed, the draperies of figures being heavy and abundant and
in the fashion of the period. Yet there was earnestly sought the ..."
4. Seat Work and Industrial Occupations: A Practical Course for Primary Grades by Mary Louise Gilman, Elizabeth Baillie Williams (1905)
"draperies FOR WINDOWS AND DOORS As the front of the doll house is open, ...
The children will be delighted to plan for the draperies and make them at home. ..."
5. My Garden by Louise Beebe Wilder (1916)
"CHAPTER FIFTEEN GREEN draperies "In a garden Nature is not to be her simple ...
VINES are the draperies of the garden, and as much thought should be given ..."
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