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Meanings of drapery in English
Synonyms
Examples for "curtain"
Examples for "curtain"
1
The lights dimmed; the curtain parted; the heights above Nagasaki were revealed.
2
The curtain rises on the third act of the drama in 1885.
3
It's impossible to understand what it means until that curtain is pulled.
4
The window was open and the curtain flapped idly in the breeze.
5
The cat rushed around in terror and finally ran up the curtain.
1
That surely means the footballer of the year mantle will pass elsewhere.
2
That was a mantle he carried with immense dignity and great courage.
3
Uranium certainly is; thorium-thestuff of this incandescent gas mantle-certainlyis; actinium.
4
Your job is to create new heroes to take up the mantle.
5
The robe must be of spotless white; the mantle or scarf blue.
1
A pall of corruption hangs over several countries, seemingly impossible to diminish.
2
A pall of dense cloud, many miles in thickness, enfolds the earth.
3
There was a coffin in the boat, covered with a simple pall.
4
The pall-bearers having deposited their charge in front of the pulpit, Rev.
5
The silence in the room was deathly, the heat intense, heavy, pall-like.
1
The drums, the piano and the violin give her a fluttering drape.
2
You can see through that drape if there's enough light behind it.
3
He was told to go home and drape his home in black.
4
In its highest window a small man held a blood-red drape aside.
5
Jondalar pushed the drape aside and was surprised to see his brother.
Usage of drapery in English
1
The drapery wavered a moment; then settled once more into its folds.
2
She swept aside the drapery and entered-thestately lady of the house.
3
He jerked the drapery aside and found himself in a dark corridor.
4
Some of the women gather them round them in folds like drapery.
5
By the way, do you remember the drapery covering the bedroom wall?
6
Hidden by the drapery of the curtain she looked out and watched.
7
The heavy drapery, as it fell, completely concealed the man in spectacles.
8
The sculptor had not yet learned to represent the folds of drapery
9
The white drapery about her head increased the expression of her countenance.
10
I had seen the likes of such red drapery on Margaret's poppet.
11
There is evidence in this piece of drapery to hang an angel.
12
Glen went to the small window and pulled the makeshift drapery aside.
13
A young woman in gold drapery drops gold coins from her hands.
14
She liked its coquettish drapery of tulle and silver about the hips.
15
She heard the sough of drapery, and a soft and striding step.
16
All the decent drapery of life is to be rudely torn off.
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Drapery through the time
Drapery across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common