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Definition of Drapery
1. Noun. Hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window).
Generic synonyms: Blind, Screen, Furnishing
Specialized synonyms: Drop, Drop Cloth, Drop Curtain, Festoon, Frontal, Portiere, Shower Curtain, Theater Curtain, Theatre Curtain
Terms within: Eyehole, Eyelet
Derivative terms: Curtain, Pall
2. Noun. Cloth gracefully draped and arranged in loose folds.
Definition of Drapery
1. n. The occupation of a draper; cloth-making, or dealing in cloth.
Definition of Drapery
1. Noun. Cloth draped gracefully in folds. ¹
2. Noun. A piece of cloth, hung vertically as a curtain; a drape. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Drapery
1. cloth arranged in graceful folds [n -ERIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Drapery
Literary usage of Drapery
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Buddhist Art in India by Albert Grünwedel (1901)
"The arrangement of the drapery appears to be flatter in the later reliefs,—those
which represent Buddha with moustaches. In the 118. ..."
2. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"Faults abound, alike in the rendering of drapery and in the representation of
the human forms, and the sculptor has evidently trusted to the painter who was ..."
3. Lectures on Sculpture: As Delivered Before the President and Members of the by John Flaxman (1865)
"drapery, as a medium through which the human figure is intelligible, may be
compared with speech, by which ideas and thought are perceived. ..."
4. A Grammar of Greek Art by Percy Gardner (1905)
"CHAPTER IV DRESS AND drapery IT is necessary for every one who approaches ...
a later time dress has beyond doubt a tendency to pass into drapery, that is, ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"drapery, if not white, was usually rose-colour or blue, often with a fringe or
bands of ... The drapery of this figure is blue, mottled, or shot with gold. ..."
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