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drapery

How to use drapery in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for drapery.

Editorial note

Swans so plentiful the shores appear to be dressed in white drapery. Colonies of Eskimo curlews so thick it looked like the land was smoking.

Examples5
Definitions2
Parts of speech1

Quick take

hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window)

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of drapery gathered in one view.

noun

hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window)

noun

cloth gracefully draped and arranged in loose folds

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for drapery.

noun

cloth gracefully draped and arranged in loose folds

Example sentences

1

Swans so plentiful the shores appear to be dressed in white drapery. Colonies of Eskimo curlews so thick it looked like the land was smoking.

2

Lots of drapery, lots of window dressing. A brutalist site would be more like the sites that have a structure, but the seams are not made seamless, and excesses are avoided...

3

Net/drapery-fm/], even more interesting. It's a wool installation that transmits its own creation story over the radio.

4

Some then don the drapery of the moral absolutist, either searching for or consciously choosing a moral lens with which to view the world. If my comments above mean to convey anything at all, it's mainly that the planet is slowly becoming one community.

5

I'm using a Razberry with an older Raspberry Pi as the controller, and Linear brand in-wall dimmers and lamp modules, plus a motorized drapery system from Somfy. The software that comes with the Razberry acts as a basic controller, but I wrote my own web front-end that talks to their controller over local http.

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use drapery in a sentence?

Swans so plentiful the shores appear to be dressed in white drapery. Colonies of Eskimo curlews so thick it looked like the land was smoking.

What does drapery mean?

hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window)

What part of speech is drapery?

drapery is commonly used as noun.