as in curtains
pieces of cloth hung to darken, decorate, or divide a room
the drapery for the picture window matched the color of the furniture in the center of the room
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The house’s elegant, painstaking craftsmanship and core shapes are here in the Spring Summer 2025 collection, augmented with lavish drapery and fluid tassels.
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Joanne Shurvell, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2024
Wiping down your sills, dropping your draperies off at the dry cleaner, and cleaning the windows from top-to-bottom will ensure your effort on the exterior isn’t done in vain but instead, promises your windows sparkle from the inside out.
—Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 12 Sep. 2024
Other rooms had no windows, which became masterfully unnoticeable in Kate Figler Interiors’ Venus Drawing Room, swathed in Gracie’s Linda’s Garden mural wall covering with a valance and drapery by Perennials that evokes the feeling of a windowed space.
—Anne Lee Phillips, Architectural Digest, 28 Oct. 2024
The restaurant’s interior was decorated with silk draperies, while artworks hung in the spaces between windows.
—Oscar Holland, CNN, 11 Oct. 2024
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Joanne Shurvell, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2024
Wiping down your sills, dropping your draperies off at the dry cleaner, and cleaning the windows from top-to-bottom will ensure your effort on the exterior isn’t done in vain but instead, promises your windows sparkle from the inside out.
—Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 12 Sep. 2024
Other rooms had no windows, which became masterfully unnoticeable in Kate Figler Interiors’ Venus Drawing Room, swathed in Gracie’s Linda’s Garden mural wall covering with a valance and drapery by Perennials that evokes the feeling of a windowed space.
—Anne Lee Phillips, Architectural Digest, 28 Oct. 2024
The restaurant’s interior was decorated with silk draperies, while artworks hung in the spaces between windows.
—Oscar Holland, CNN, 11 Oct. 2024
See all Example Sentences for drapery
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“Drapery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/drapery. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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