He works in the drapery department of the store. 他在商店的纺织品部工作。
The orphan in whom you took an interest is now doing well in the drapery way. 你所关心的那个孤儿现在经营布匹和服装,生意很好。
A lay figure can be placed in any position, or attitude, and clothed in any costume and thus serves as a model for the drapery. 人体模型可以放在任何位置,摆成任何姿势,穿上任何服装,作为服装店的模特儿。
drapery
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hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window)
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cloth gracefully draped and arranged in loose folds
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Drapery \Dra"per*y\, n.; pl. {Draperies}. [F. draperie.] 1. The occupation of a draper; cloth-making, or dealing in cloth. --Bacon.
2. Cloth, or woolen stuffs in general.
People who ought to be weighing out grocery or measuring out drapery. --Macaulay.
3. A textile fabric used for decorative purposes, especially when hung loosely and in folds carefully disturbed; as: (a) Garments or vestments of this character worn upon the body, or shown in the representations of the human figure in art. (b) Hangings of a room or hall, or about a bed.
Like one that wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams. --Bryant.
All the decent drapery of life is to be rudely torn off. --Burke.
{Casting of draperies}. See under {Casting}.
The casting of draperies . . . is one of the most important of an artist's studies. --Fairholt.
The stage looks magnificent, and Berman's fantasy of pillars and flambeaux and crowned eagle, between great swags of gold drapery, is a triumph of stage decoration.
Decorator, whose last acquisition was in 1985, continues to be interested in making other acquisitions of bedspread and drapery manufacturers, Mr. Bassett said, although it doesn't have any particular company in mind at the moment.
Poynter, in 1885, had painted the young woman nude but he added diaphanous drapery after it was exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts and provoked letters from shocked viewers.
"It was just the most helpless thing I've experienced in my life," said Sara Seidler, whose drapery store burned to the ground. "Why didn't the police go in?