draped

comparative more draped · superlative most draped

1. Covered by or clothed in cloth that drapes loosely around the object or body.

   The hero, of whom only part of the nude torso and draped lower body is preserved, reclines toward the right on a draped kline.

   2017, Carol L. Lawton, Votive Reliefs

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   The Venus Victrix is more draped than we expected from the subject, for the Princess Borghèse lay for it, as all the scandalous Chronicles have repeated a dozen times, in a state of nudity— certainly not consistent with the notions of female decency entertained in our climate.

   1822, S. Prowett, “The Works of Antonio Canova”, in The Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, page 793

   He was followed (literally) by a troupe of very draped ladies, exactly the score of 'love-sick maidens', led by an imperious Lady Jane.

   1969, Evan Senior, Music and Musicians - Volume 18, page 17

2. Having curtains or drapery (often of a specified type)

   As Marilyn led them down the hallway, Lorna glanced into the partially draped rooms.

   2015, Rainer Rey, The Find

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   And for the newly mobilized, vacationing multitudes after the Second World War, there were the "Colonial" pilgrimages, which allowed lowly folk to step inside the very draped and chandeliered rooms where our Betters had lived out their Elegant and Traditional Colonial Lives.

   1997, John Bentley Mays, Power in the Blood: Land, Memory, and a Southern Family, page 91

   Valances, swags, or cornices may be installed over draped walls to enhance the impression of a window treatment.

   2007, Karla J. Nielson, Interior Textiles: Fabrics, Application, and Historic Style, page 168

3. fashionLoosely fitted, with softly hanging fabric.

   See the high cowl but here wider and very draped .

   2007, Nirupama Pundir, Fashion Technology: Today and Tomorrow, page 139

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   Double-breasted coats, swagger coats, bias, very draped, and very pleated skirts require more cloth than straight cuts and hence cost more.

   1957, Mabel Deane Erwin, Clothing for Moderns, page 166

   Not to mention he was draped in those gaudy symbols.

   2007 March 16, Capcom Production Studio 4, quoting Trilo, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Justice for All, Europe: Capcom, →OCLC, Nintendo DS, scene: Part 3: Investigation, Circus Entrance, level/area: Turnabout Big Top

   More complicated designs, draped and otherwise, require their wearer to move in a certain way.

   2014, Linda Przybyszewski, The Lost Art of Dress: The Women Who Once Made America Stylish, page 1977

4. broadlyHanging loosely.

   They lay side by side, limbs draped, energy exhausted.

   2013, James H. Jackson, Race

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   Completing the picture are some heavily draped power lines, a few meandering chickens and, looking completely incongruous, a dry docked, large and sleek, modern motor boat.

   2014, Dorothy E. Groszhans, Ecuadorothy, page 88

   He just looked very draped, like a section of curtain supplicated over his crazy paving.

   2015, Helen Lederer, Losing It: From the Star of Celebrity Big Brother 2017, page 75

5. figurativelysurrounding or surrounded.

   Her energy is very draped. She is covering and caring for many that she loves and supports. The draping will extend as she moves forward on her path.

   2012, Dane Boggs, Reiki Awakening: A Spiritual Journey, page 82

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   His comprehensive correspondence with the musician Heinrich Köselitz (pseudonym Peter Gast) for example reads like a single repository of meteorological lamentations and complaints about the daily weather: Nietzsche feels "very draped and hidden" again and again, incapable of any productivity, because the climate strikes him as an “absurd disorder" (eKGWB/BVN- 1888,1049 - letter from 20.06.1888 ).

   2017, Patrick Ramponi, “Nietzshe's Meteoropathy”, in Sarah Fekadu, Hanna Straß-Senol, Tobias Döring, editor, REAL, page 145

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of drape