Drape

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪp

Origin

From Middle English drape (noun, "a drape"), from Old French draper ("to drape", also, "to full cloth"), from drap ("cloth, drabcloth"), from Late Latin drappus, drapus ("drabcloth, kerchief"), a word first recorded in the Capitularies of Charlemagne, probably from Frankish *drapi, *drāpi ("that which is fulled, drabcloth", literally that which is struck or for striking)

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, from Proto-Germanic *drapiz ("a strike, hit, blow") and Proto-Germanic *drēpiz ("intended for striking, to be beaten"), both from *drepaną ("to beat, strike"), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrebʰ- ("to beat, crush, make or become thick")

Skeat, An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language, "Drab."

. Cognate with English drub ("to beat"), North Frisian dreep ("a blow"), Low German drapen, dräpen ("to strike"), German treffen ("to meet"), Swedish dräpa ("to slay"). More at drub.

Full definition of drape

Noun

1. (UK) A curtain, a drapery.
2. (US) See drapes.
3. (US) A youth subculture distinguished by its sharp dress, especially peg-leg pants (1950s: e.g. Baltimore, MD). Antonym: square

Verb

1. To cover or adorn with drapery or folds of cloth, or as with drapery; as, to drape a bust, a building, etc.
• De QuinceyThe whole people were draped professionally.
• BungayThese starry blossoms, pure and white,
  Soft falling, falling, through the night,
  Have draped the woods and mere.
2. To rail at; to banter.
3. To make cloth.
4. To design drapery, arrange its folds, etc., as for hangings, costumes, statues, etc.
5. To hang or rest limply
6. To spread over, cover.

Anagrams

• dreap
• padre, Padre
• pared
• raped