Bedrape

/bɪˈdɹeɪp/ · verb

Meaning

(archaic) To dress, clothe..

Definitions by Sense

1. (archaic) To dress, clothe.
2. To drape, cover or adorn with drapery or folds of cloth, or as with drapery.

Example Sentences

We moderns bedeck and bedrape us in all sorts of meretricious togas, till a pair of fine eyes and a dashing manner pass for beauty; but when life tries the metal--when nature applies her inevitable test--the degenerate or neurotic type goes to the wall."

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.

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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Word Forms

• bedrapes
• bedraping
• bedraped

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