to cover or hang with cloth or other fabric, esp. in graceful folds; adorn with drapery.

to adjust (curtains, clothes, etc.) into graceful folds, attractive lines, etc.

to arrange, hang, or let fall carelessly

Don't drape your feet over the chair!

Medicine/Medical, Surgery . to place cloth so as to surround (a part to be examined, treated, or operated upon).

(in reinforced-concrete construction) to hang (reinforcement) in a certain form between two points before pouring the concrete.

to put a black cravat on (a flagstaff) as a token of mourning.

to hang, fall, or become arranged in folds, as drapery

This silk drapes well.

a curtain or hanging of heavy fabric and usually considerable length, esp. either of a pair for covering a window and drawn open and shut horizontally.

either of a pair of similar curtains extending or draped at the sides of a window, French doors, or the like as decoration.

manner or style of hanging

the drape of a skirt.

verb

undrape

verb

array , cloak , clothe , cover , dangle , display , don , dress , droop , drop , enclose , enswathe , envelop , enwrap , fold , hang , lean over , let fall , line , model , roll , sprawl , spread , spread-eagle , suspend , swathe , wrap , mantle , robe , loll , straddle , adorn , curtain , deck , shroud