drapery

English

Etymology

From Middle English draperie, from Old French draperie, from drap (“drape, sheet, large cloth”), ultimately of Germanic origin.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈdɹeɪpəɹi/

Noun

drapery (countable and uncountable, plural draperies)

(uncountable) Cloth draped gracefully in folds.
(countable) A piece of cloth, hung vertically as a curtain; a drape.
- 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], OCLC 24531354, page 306:
  The windows gleamed with light through the boughs—a small open space gave to view the left wing of the building—he could distinctly see the long range of illuminated apartments, figures moving to and fro, and the richly coloured fall of the draperies.
The occupation of a draper; cloth-making, or dealing in cloth.
- 1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret, OCLC 1086746628:
  He made also statutes for the maintenance of drapery and the keeping of wools within the realm
Cloth, or woollen materials in general.
- 1859, Thomas Macaulay, The Life of William Pitt
  people who ought to be weighing out grocery or measuring out drapery

Related terms

ale-drapery

Translations

uncountable: cloth draped gracefully in folds

Bulgarian: драперия (bg) f (draperija)
Esperanto: drapiraĵo
Finnish: drapeeraus
Portuguese: drapeado (pt) m

countable: a piece of cloth, hung vertically as a curtain

Catalan: cortina (ca) f
Esperanto: kurteno, drapiraĵo (uncommon, literary)
Finnish: verho (fi)
French: rideau (fr) m
Galician: cortina (gl) f
German: Vorhang (de) m
Italian: tenda (it) f
Plautdietsch: Väahank m
Portuguese: cortina (pt) f
Romanian: draperie (ro) f, perdea (ro) f
Spanish: cortina (es) f
Swedish: draperi (sv) n

the occupation of a draper

Irish: éadaitheoireacht f

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Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} drapiro