DRAPED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does draped mean? 

• DRAPED (adjective)
  The adjective DRAPED has 2 senses:

1. covered with or as if with clothes or a wrap or cloak

2. covered in folds of cloth

  Familiarity information: DRAPED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DRAPED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Covered with or as if with clothes or a wrap or cloak

Synonyms:

cloaked; clothed; draped; mantled; wrapped

Context example:

cloud-wrapped peaks

Similar:

covered (overlaid or spread or topped with or enclosed within something; sometimes used as a combining form)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Covered in folds of cloth

Context example:

velvet-draped windows

Similar:

curtained (furnished or concealed with curtains or draperies)

 Context examples 

It’s draped with twisted magnetic field lines and swooping electrons and ions.

(FIREBIRD II and NASA Mission Locate Whistling Space Electrons’ Origins, NASA)

It stood on a small pedestal table with an old dressing-gown of Holmes’s so draped round it that the illusion from the street was absolutely perfect.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Its shoulders were humped, and round them were draped what appeared to be a faded gray shawl.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And yet behind this outer veiling of folly, with which they so carefully draped themselves, they were often men of strong character and robust personality.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The shadows of evening had fallen, and the corners of the long, low, wood-panelled room were draped in darkness.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It seems that magnetic fields have draped themselves over the cold front, acting almost like a shield against the barrage of forces from the rest of the cluster.

(Scientists Surprised by Relentless Cosmic Cold Front, NASA)

It was a nice equipment for a respectable citizen to carry through the dim, fog-draped streets.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They were mere skeletons, draped loosely in draggled hides, with blazing eyes and slavered fangs.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Amy looked relieved, but naughty Jo took her at her word, for during the first call she sat with every limb gracefully composed, every fold correctly draped, calm as a summer sea, cool as a snowbank, and as silent as the sphinx.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Within the arch, the bulky figure of Sir George Lynn, whom Mr. Rochester had likewise chosen, was seen enveloped in a white sheet: before him, on a table, lay open a large book; and at his side stood Amy Eshton, draped in Mr. Rochester's cloak, and holding a book in her hand.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)