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  • noun Plural form of draping.

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Examples

  • So, what better way to decide to deal with your growing midsection than to seek out some new drapings for it, right?

    Archive 2008-02-01 kittenpie 2008

  • She was descending, with one of the embroidered drapings of the high table rolled up in her arms, on her way to the canonical dwellings across the precinct.

    His Disposition 2010

  • So, what better way to decide to deal with your growing midsection than to seek out some new drapings for it, right?

    Evil Designer Genius 101 kittenpie 2008

  • The ancient hangings were threaded with the same scenes of the hunt and war as the haggard drapings of the oasis; the newer ones bore scenes of the land under the mirage.

    Dwellers in the Mirage 2004

  • Their golden bracelets leaped in the vague drapings of their cloaks.

    Salammbo 2003

  • Many of the steeds were down on their knees, their drapings covered in blood.

    The Black Wing Kirchoff, Mary 1993

  • Above and below the drapings of the board were two different worlds.

    A Rare Benedictine Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1988

  • I do not even know the drapings of tunics, the tying of slave girdles!

    Renegades Of Gor Norman, John 1986

  • So I found the best robe-maker (there were so many Persians in camp, that craftsmen followed them) and he made it with the real elaborate drapings.

    The Persian Boy Renault, Mary 1972

  • They bent firmly against the blast and the broad streaming of their ample drapings added much to the idea of supernatural power and resistance they inspired.

    The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt Elizabeth Miller

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