bedrape

verb
/bɪˈdɹeɪp/UK

Etymology

From be- + drape.

  1. derived from *dʰreb-
  2. derived from *drēpiz
  3. derived from *drapiz
  4. derived from drappus
  5. derived from draper
  6. inherited from drape
  7. prefixed as bedrape — “be + drape

Definitions

  1. To dress, clothe.

    • Shift and bedeck and bedrape her as they might, she was yet the Burdock; her lights would run down the Channel with no new consciousness in their stare, and there was work and peril for men aboard of her as of old.
  2. To drape, cover or adorn with drapery or folds of cloth, or as with drapery.

    • The pink and white may, the clumps of lilac, the leafy hedgerows, the verandahs bedraped with mauve wistaria […]—it was all a sight, I can assure you!
    • I had to wait in a lofty drawing-room with three long windows from floor to ceiling that were like three luminous and bedraped columns.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA