draping 披盖
Drape \Drape\ (dr[=a]p), 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.
- In Tilat Al-Haritiya village near Ramallah, children gathered on the streets Tuesday night singing nationalist songs and draping displaying photographs of PLO chief Yasser Arafat across electricity poles.
- His draping provides la difference.
- The painting, entitled "North Entry Hall at Christmas," shows boughs of evergreens draping the white marble columns of the Cross Hall, the great hall that leads from the State Dining Room to the East Room.
- About 1,000 protestors chanted and shouted as they moved from building to building on the NIH campus, draping red streamers through the trees to symbolize the bureaucratic red tape they say is slowing research.
- Dior waxed exotic with his sari wrap, draping feathery fabrics like crepe georgette or shantung silk crepe in a diagonal movement from the waist to the opposite shoulder, and Indian style, around the back to the hand.
- Mr. Fourie, draping an arm around his wife, adds softly, "We never thought it could get like this for us."
- Her rose-fastened satin gowns with draping and sparkling embroidery were luscious for debutantes or women a bit older.